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...hottest cargo that any ship can carry these days is oil bound for Rhodesia. Two tankers that tried to make that run became lost last week on the chartless sea of international diplomacy. Under the shadow of a United Nations resolution permitting the British to use "force" to preserve their oil embargo of Rhodesia (TIME, April 15), the Ioanna V finally docked in the Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the south its sister ship Manuela...
...there will be eight private compartments in a raised section in the forward part of the plane. The remaining two planes ordered by Pan Am will be freighters, with capacities of 214,000 lbs. as against the 76,400-lb. limit of the airline's current Boeing-made cargo aircraft. Scheduled for delivery starting in September 1969, the 747 will cruise at 45,000 ft. at some 625 m.p.h., and will have a range of nearly 6,000 miles, or roughly the distance between New York and Baghdad. Its tail section will stand more than five stories high...
With the SST in the offing, the monster passenger plane such as the 747 is considered by some to be little more than an interim aircraft. Pan American clearly had this in mind when it specified that Boeing construct its 747 planes strong enough to be converted into cargo carriers. Actually, the 747 and the SST will likely complement each other. For passengers who want to fly a long distance in a supersonic hurry, the SST will be available at premium rates; but such will be the low operating costs of the 747 that a customer who is willing...
...fads, its styles, its people. It is also the place to go. It has become the latest mecca for Parisians who are tired of Paris, where the stern and newly puritanical domain of Charles de Gaulle holds sway. From the jets that land at its doors pour a swelling cargo of the international set, businessmen, tourists-and just plain scene-makers...
Western Europe has increased its trade with Red China from a total of $321.6 million in 1962 to an estimated $622.8 million in 1965. Britain is building or has contracted to build four major plants in China to produce fertilizers, plastics and synthetic fibers. Two 15,000-ton cargo liners are being built for the Chinese in a Scottish shipyard. The French are building a chemical plant in China, have launched two freighters to be delivered to the Chinese, may also build a passenger ship and a truck-assembly plant. The Italians are selling steel and machinery, fertilizer components...