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...least of the headaches con fronting officials in Manila is the pothole problem. Even the city's biggest thoroughfares are pocked with holes that resemble shell craters, and Filipino cartoonists are having a field day depicting delegates stranded in the concrete cavities while bulletins whiz over their heads. President Ferdinand Mar cos has made $190,000 available for a quick cosmetic job on the major arteries...
...Oyster Creek plant of Jersey Central Power & Light, due to open next year, is expected to run for 4 mills per kwh, as does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison to make power from coal in Manhattan. Even the TVA, though blessed with abundant sources of coal, will switch to fissionable fuel at its new Decatur, Ala., plant, largest (2,200,000 kw.) of its kind...
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round just fills the space between a frisky title and a tricky TV-comedy ending, but doesn't fill it with any revels that require a viewer's complete attention. The movie's hero is a lickerish, hipsterish con artist named Kotch, played by James Coburn in a flaccid reprise of his role as Our Man Flint. In prison, Kotch cranks up a steal-a-million scheme, a testament to the faith of moviemakers that a tale so often told must be good for something-even if it is no longer...
Nonetheless, work on the SST con tinues in Europe...
...British and French hope to fly a prototype Concorde in February 1968, test a second prototype in the summer of '68, and have their SST operational by 1971. The British Aircraft Corp. is building the nose and tail sections for the 1,450 m.p.h., 140-passenger Con corde. Britain's Bristol Siddeley is mak ing the engine. France's Sud-Aviation is responsible for the wings and midsection. To break even, the builders will have to sell about 140 Concordes at $16 million each; already 60 are on order, including eight for Pan Am, six apiece...