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...Michigan's George Romney, Maryland's Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Colorado's John Love and South Dakota's Nils Boe...
...SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR 42% of the vote Boe (R) 37,000 Chamberlin (D) 31,000 U.S. SENATOR Mundt (R) (winner) Wright...
...Optimist. Seattle's Boeing gained an advantage over its rivals because it first sold its 707 as a tanker to the Air Force, and got most of its bugs fixed in doing so. (Flight-testing the DC-8 took 2,284 hours at costs of up to $10,000 an hour.) But Boeing earned its advantage by gambling $18 million to build a prototype for the Air Force to look at before it bought. With 40% of the world jet market, Boeing has so far sold 439 of its 707s, its medium-range 720s and its short-range 727s...
...Double Webs, Author Jean Overton Fuller charges that S.O.E. was totally fooled by a French-born double agent code-named "Gilbert," who was better known to the Germans as agent "BOE 48" (the 48th agent of Karl Boemelburg, a Gestapo chief in Paris). It is Author Fuller's contention that Gilbert, as Air Movements Officer of S.O.E., passed pertinent documents to the Gestapo headquarters before sending them by courier to London. In return, Gilbert obtained a German promise never to shoot down or capture any aircraft landing at fields he controlled. Gilbert was later brought to London "under suspicion...
...Smart Subaltern. Jacobo (pronounced Ha-coe-boe) Arbenz was born in Quezaltenango in 1913 of a Ladino mother and a moody Swiss immigrant druggist who failed in business, walked out on his family and later killed himself. Another Swiss in the town intervened with General Jorge Ubico, the country's all-powerful ruler, to get the blond youth a scholarship at the national military school. Quickwitted and lithely muscular, Arbenz played polo and boxed while pulling down the highest grades in the academy's history. But when school triumphs were over, he was just another impoverished subaltern with...