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Such statistics will soon seem modest, for more planes are on the way: last week two squadrons of sleek, barracuda-like F-4C Phantom fighter-bombers swooped down onto the new 10,000-ft. jet strip at Cam Ranh. A third squadron of the 1,500-m.p.h. fighter-bombers is now en route to South Viet Nam, as is an F-100 squadron, and by the end of next March Washington plans to double-to 1,200 planes-the strike force available to U.S. field commanders in the South...
...weeks ago Gardner chaired a White House Conference on Education, further impressed the President by advising co-participants not to "nibble timidly around the edges" of the big issues, but to "start taking some barracuda-like bites." At a ceremony after the conference, Johnson plucked Gardner's arm, said, "I want to see you right after the reception." In his office Johnson broached the idea of HEW to Gardner, who, two days later, accepted -even though his $35,000 Government salary reportedly will be half of what he earned at Carnegie...
...1950s and early 1960s have returned to buying Chrysler products. Sales of the slab-sided big Chrysler have increased by 69% this year, and Plymouth, boosted by the sleek, lengthened Fury, has gained 47%-the two greatest increases in the industry. Dodge sales are up 19%. The racy, fastback Barracuda, carved out of the compact Valiant as a quick and inexpensive answer to Ford's Mustang, has more than compensated for a decline in Valiant sales...
...Niche. Among the industry's 33 name plates, the most spectacular performer in January was Ford's sporty Mustang, which carved out 5.1% of the market although it was introduced only last April. Another newcomer, Chrysler's fastback Barracuda, established a 0.6% niche for itself. Plymouth made an impressive improvement over its January 1964 market share, adding; 1.5%. Buick won an additional 0.8%, Tempest and Chrysler 0.6% each, standard Ford 0.5% and Mercury 0.4% -all at the expense of the compacts and the cars with only modest styling changes, which continued to be the biggest losers. Because...
...keep house, play chess, pamper a parrot, and begin to feel strangely detached from events in the surface world. Jewel-bright sea creatures hover outside the glass windows, coolly observing behavior in the manfish bowl. When divers venture into the abysmal blue depths to explore, they come upon sharks, barracuda, and marine life hitherto unheard of-all recorded in skillful underwater photography that magnifies even minute plankton into glittering monstrosities...