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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has South Viet Nam at the very top of his daily agenda. He has made monthly visits to Hawaii for briefings on the progress of the war, and this week he is scheduled to arrive in Saigon for a firsthand look. He intends to climb into khaki work clothes and set off with Harkins on an intensive field inspection, ranging from the new "strategic hamlets" in the highlands to the training camps of the Mekong Delta, where the Green Berets-the U.S. Special Forces-are instructing Vietnamese soldiers in everything from march discipline to weapons assembly...
Texaco raised its quarterly dividend from 40? to 45? on the strength of a 7% profits gain (to a record $115 million), and Shell Oil's earnings increased 10% to $38 million. Heartened by April's climb in gasoline prices, oilmen predicted continued gains for the second quarter. In a few industries, a combination of overcapacity, intense competition and high costs produced a less uniformly rosy picture. Among them...
Since the Dow-Jones industrial index hit its alltime high of 734.91 last December, the market has mushed indecisively into a slow decline. Last week, after being frightened down to 684.06 by the President's clash with Big Steel, the index man aged .to climb back up to 694.25. But the gains were made on a thin market; the number of shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange ran at only 3,000,000 a day, v. 5,000,000 a day a year...
...Japanese viewer, The Hidden Fortress must have a very archaic flavor, since Kurosawa has grafted onto it the gruff, stylized vocal tones and, sometimes the abrupt, hyperdramatic gestures of Kabuki. When the two peasants climb mountains in a completely prone position, they recall the balletic exaggeration of Japan's ancestral theatre, as do the shrieks that serve the Princess for "normal" speech. Indeed, she must remain silent throughout the journey because her voice would "reveal her identity...
...commercial airline pilots are claiming that any single noise abatement rule makes flying dangerous. But bit by bit, say the pilots, noise abatement procedures are chipping away at their margin of safety. Long training urges that they take off into the wind and climb to altitude on a straight course under full power. Noise abatement often requires them to take off downwind, to climb too steeply, to make turns at minimum altitudes and air speeds. Cutting power for the sake of quietness reduces air speed also, just when a plane needs every boost it can get. As it is practiced...