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...fuselage, and Huey helicopters. Most of the repairs and ground work are handled by Air America's 9,000 Nationalist Chinese and Philippine employees. The line's 400-odd pilots are nearly all recruited from the U.S. military services, draw an average $18,000 in base pay, plus bonuses for hazardous flying conditions, which can raise the annual total to $25,000 or more. The flyers wear plain airline-type grey uniforms, stay mostly to themselves in special Air America clubs, and are tight-lipped about their missions. Says one Air America man: "So long...
...last week things were back to normal. Shortly after Kurdish terrorists tried to blow up the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline from Kirkuk to Syria (damaging it slightly), Iraq government MIG-17s and MIG-19s blasted Kurdish supply routes at the base of Zozok Mountain, near the border, plastering hillside, countryside and villages in the neighborhood with machine-gun bullets, rockets and napalm. Kurdish sharpshooters sat out the attacks in caves, surprised army patrols on isolated roads, swooped down one night on the tents of an Iraqi army battalion stationed near the town of Ruwandiz...
...added at Mrs. Astor's special request. Next comes a child-size maze made of rough concrete emblazoned with abstract symbols painted in bright primary colors. "It was all planned," says Friedberg, "as a continuous play experience, rather than a collection of static objects attached to an asphalt base...
After long service on such national newspapers as the London Times, Observer and Sunday Telegraph, Fairlie discovered that the local, community-based papers of the U.S. were a welcome change of pace. Having spent seven months in the U.S. last year, he decided that the future of U.S. newspapers is bright, "partly as a result of the pressure of the reading public. Much more aware of the problems of urban life and of the inadequate response of political leaders, the readers want aggressive journalism. The will must be there in publisher or editor; but the economic base is strong...
Inflation by Anti-Inflation. The April figures would certainly suggest that inflation is no longer nearly so inevitable as it seemed only a few weeks ago. Yet no sooner did the slowdown statistics come through than out came the cost-of-living index. It is based on the U.S.'s last significant inflationary period-1957-59-and for April, as it had in the three previous months, it showed an increase. This time the index was up by 3.5%, to a level of 112.5, meaning that last month it required $112.50 to buy what a consumer was able...