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...quickly obtained a license to manufacture a U.S. Breguet to be designated the McDonnell 188-E. Although the plane is yet to be built, McDonnell is negotiating a contract with N.Y. Airways for a three-year demonstration of the plane in the crowded Northeast. U.S. Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd believes that aircraft such as the Breguet 941 will one day dominate short-range U.S. commercial flight...
...Johnson Administration said that it was inflationary. Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd said that it would "ultimately be reflected in the cost of thousands of consumer items, food, housing, and the support of our vital effort in Viet Nam." The Department of Agriculture denounced it as a move that would make the U.S. farmer carry "an unjust and unreasonable burden." Yet the Interstate Commerce Commission, after long and careful consideration, last week overrode such complaints, granted to U.S. railways a $300 million increase in freight rates...
...suburbs and, in the long run, only the suburbs, will gain in the upheaval resulting from reapportionment," said William J. D. Boyd of the National Municipal League two years ago, and he has been proved right. In state elections last year, Republicans gained 45 new seats in reapportioned legislatures v. 25 for the Democrats. In Pennsylvania, ultraconservative upstate Republicans were replaced-but by other Republicans, from the suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In Illinois...
...prototypes already being built, and will carry 300 passengers to its competitors' 130-odd. The U.S. aircraft, to cost $40 million each, will be able to fly from New York City to Paris in two hours and 20 minutes, v. seven hours for standard jets. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd estimated a minimum sale of 300 aircraft under the SST program. Boeing President William M. Allen anticipates that the plane will be flying by 1971, about the same time that its slower, trans-Atlantic competitors go into service...
...Weber made a mirthful if somewhat incongruous Figaro. His ensemble singing was superb, but in the arias his voice often sounded a little cloudy. Only in the last, "Aprite un po'quegli occhi," did his singing become brilliant and colorful. Nancy Boyd as Susanna was the heroine of the production. Her voice was warm but clear, her phrasing and style impeccable...