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...invaded the "associated state" of Laos in its southern, least strongly defended sector (see map). The Communists fell by night upon a French-Laotian company near the border and cut it quickly to pieces. Then the invaders headed west through scraggy hillsides towards the Mekong, using footpath trails to bypass the French defense posts along the main highway. They need not have bothered: the French, hopelessly outnumbered, were already pulling out. The day after Christmas, the Communists entered the center of Thakhek (pop. 10,000) and gazed across the Mekong to the rich land of Siam. They had split Indo...
BELGIUM'S Sabena Airlines, which decided to bypass Shannon, Ireland in routing transatlantic flights, quickly changed its mind. American tourists, accustomed to picking up Irish whisky at Shannon, protested so loudly that Sabena rescheduled the refueling stop...
CUTS in the price of titanium, the wonder metal needed for jet engines and planes (TIME, June 15) are in the offing. A new process, developed by United International Research, Inc. to produce titanium sponge directly from titanium dioxide and bypass expensive steps in present methods, may cut the cost of sponge (from which plates, sheets, etc., are made) from $5 to $1.50 a pound...
...will fly more efficiently with an engine whose gases shoot out of the tailpipe more slowly. Rolls-Royce Ltd. of Britain is testing such an engine, which it calls the Conway, after a river in Wales. Rolls will not give details of its construction, except that it uses the "bypass" principle...
...state, from the western terminus of the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Indiana border. It dwarfs both the original 160-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike, the first super toll-highway, and the new $250 million, 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike (TIME, Aug. 27). With both of these, after a 35-mile Philadelphia bypass links them, the Ohio Turnpike will provide a super-highway route (see map) enabling motorists to drive all the way from Hartford, Conn, to Indiana, at high speeds, with few toll stops and no traffic lights. When additional New England toll roads are completed interlinked highways will reach from Portland...