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...late John F. Kennedy rises through a dissolve that shows a New Jersey Air Guard unit listening. When the President says he will activate Air Guard squadrons for a year because of the Berlin crisis, the flyers, including Bach, roar approval. Then Bach is strapped into the dark cockpit of a night
...operated calculators have endless and obvious applications on the job. A Miami fruit grower carries his around to estimate the yields ripening in his apple and orange groves; a Maryland cartographer bought one to compute distance ratios on his maps; a Florida-based jet pilot keeps his in the cockpit to reckon flight times. But the calculators became a sales sizzler only when general consumers, once again proving their fascination with small electronic gadgetry, decided that they would also make handy checkbook balancers, income tax figurers and math-course timesavers. About half a million mini-calculators have been sold...
...done to a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The sabotage was discovered when a preflight electronic check-out indicated trouble. Then, in August, four RF4 Phantom jets at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, were more ineptly sabotaged. Electrical plugs under the cockpit instrument panels were pulled out -a fact that was instantly perceived when the panel lights failed...
...streets, in restaurants, beer halls, offices and shops from West Berlin to Bavaria, West Germans could be heard engaged in a great, continuing national debate on the election that will be held Nov. 19. The vote, beyond ending a deadlock that has turned their Bundestag into a cockpit of frustration, will amount to nothing less than a referendum on the future of the Federal Republic. It will decide whether West Germany will continue on the three-year-old course set by Chancellor Willy Brandt and his left-of-center Social Democrats-or return to the leadership of the more conservative...
...just descending to begin the approach into Rabat airport when three American-made F-5 Freedom Fighters of the Moroccan air force flew out to meet it. Suddenly, the aerial escort opened fire with rockets and machine guns on the royal plane. After two passes they had damaged the cockpit, cut hydraulic lines, smashed instruments and blown out a rear door. As Prince Moulay Abdullah, the King's brother related later, the quick-thinking Hassan called the attacking pilots on the airliner's radio and told them that he was the flight engineer. The King was "mortally wounded...