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From the FBI last week came a report of its findings in the Walter Jenkins case. The bureau said it had interviewed more than 500 persons in its crash investigation, undertaken on orders from President Johnson, and had examined the life of the former White House aide from his Texas boyhood right up to the moment he was last arrested in a Washington Y.M.C.A. washroom. But beyond a flat statement that Jenkins had not been "framed" or "entrapped" (as some of Jenkins' most powerful friends continue to insist), the FBI report said little that was not already known (TIME...
...President, Hoover utilized federal power as an instrument to support the private economy far more than any President before him. At his urging, Congress created a Federal Farm Board, backed by $500 million in federal funds, which came to the aid of farm marketing cooperatives after the market crash. He sought $663 million to push public works-a figure that critics decried as excessive. He proposed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the National Credit Corporation. He secured an early agreement in which labor promised to forgo strikes and new wage demands, Big Business agreed to maintain wages and spread work...
...light blinks a warning on the control panel. "Engine blew," snaps Taylor. In two-engine-aircraft dramas, troubles never come singly. The tower reports three other planes blocking the path back to the strip. The radio goes dead. And of course Engine No. 2 conks out. Flight 22 crash-lands on a deserted beach, bellies safely down and plows through the sand-only to hit an abandoned pier and incinerate...
Next to fish, Kwan thinks mostly about the inexorability of Fate. In the movie's least credible scene, Ford solemnly reports Nancy's verdict to a panel of CAB experts: the crash victims died because "for some reason or other, their time had come." Luckily, even in Hollywood the CAB shows little inclination to ponder the inscrutable. So Ford plods ahead to prove that Kismet was probably just a little short circuit. Hunter seems an unlikely choice for inflight screenings. Passengers on the ground may view it at their own risk...
Viet Cong ground fire from captured U.S. .50-cal. machine guns knocked the helicopter into a blazing heap, and black-clad Communist guerrillas finished the job. Five American crewmen and their Vietnamese observer died. It was the sixth helicopter crash of the week, and it brought the toll of Americans killed in action over the 200 mark...