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...serving, a stewardess will put it on electric elevators connecting the two levels. Among the most important new superjets: THE MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-IO was put into service last month by American and United airlines. By next year, it will also be flying for National, Continental, Northwest and Delta. Designed to carry up to 345 passengers over medium distances (1,000 to 1,500 miles), the three-engine ship is already handling traffic between Chicago and Los Angeles and later this year will make Pittsburgh-to-Miami and Chicago-to-Cleveland runs. On the Chicago...
...South Viet Nam's ruling politicians have imbibed only sparingly of the spirit of democracy, while adopting every trick in the freewheeling history of American ward politics and adding some new wrinkles of their own. On election day, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch made a tour of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh, where the government seemed particularly intent on making certain that popular Opposition Deputy Ngo Cong Duc lost (TIME, Sept. 6). Rauch's report...
...ranging exploration of merger possibilities-the classic, though not always successful industry device for rescuing the flounderers. Some carriers have already reached merger agreements. Currently pending before the Civil Aeronautics Board are three proposed consolidations that could strongly affect the industry's structure: Mohawk with Allegheny, Northeast with Delta and, by far the largest and most important, American with Western. The American-Western merger would join the second-and eighth-biggest domestic carriers...
...Cong Duc is far and away the most popular candidate in Vinh Binh, a flat, fertile province in the Mekong Delta, 60 miles southeast of Saigon. Son of a wealthy canton chief who was assassinated by Communists in 1954, Duc has gradually shifted from being a defender of the status quo to being a critic of the war and of the presence of foreign forces. He is now a national personality, and in any fair election would be an odds-on favorite to win. As the campaign came to an end last week, Duc expected to get no more than...
...Delta Chi awards, three major Overseas Press Club awards, the Broun award and the Hillman award. All of those who earned those awards for the Daily News are still with us, as are two earlier Pulitzer prizewinners...