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...date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion, so he can whisk above the perpetual traffic snarls to fires, crashes-and his city hall office...
...Miller, 23, a graduate of Jesuit-run Le Moyne College in Syracuse, who claims that "the only thing I'm expert at is refusing to be drafted," and Brown University Dropout David Mitchell, also 23, who founded the Brooklyn-based End the Draft Committee and its monthly publication Downdraft, but maintains that he would fight to defend his country against attack. Both refuse to apply for classification as conscientious objectors-though neither has shown any reticence about offering his conscience as Exhibit A in court-and both face jail terms...
Jouncing along in turbulent air at 28,000 ft., the Paris-to-Rome Caravelle jet flew into a vicious downdraft over the Apuane Alps, plummeted sickeningly before the pilot regained control. A stewardess was knocked unconscious and six passengers who had failed to fasten their seat belts were battered against the bulkhead. Among the most seriously injured: Italian Movie Producer Carlo Ponti, 48, husband-in-fact (if not by law) of Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 28, whose badly cut right ear required 14 emergency stitches and 45 extra ones in plastic surgery. "Frightening," said Ponti, his head turbaned in bandages. "Luckily...
...rise, whole groups of stock have been left behind. Aircrafts were caught in an earnings downdraft caused by heavy investments in the new jets: during the first half Boeing skidded nine points to close June at 37½, Douglas dropped 10½ to 47½. Oils were burdened by heavy inventories and price cuts: Royal Dutch dipped 5⅜ to 42½; Standard (N.J.) slid to 51⅝; Gulf worried off 16 to 110. Among utilities, losses from two to five points hit Consolidated Edison, Southern California Edison, American Electric Power...
Capital Airlines, laden with its full share of financial troubles, flew headlong into a downdraft. In Washington last week, experts for the Civil Aeronautics Board withdrew a recommendation that Capital get a long-range route from the Great Lakes to Florida's rich vacation market, instead advised the CAB that Capital was not equipped to fly the run. CAB's reason: the original recommendation was based on the proposition that Capital would have new planes to fly the route. Since then, Capital's financial position has deteriorated so badly that it had to postpone plane deliveries indefinitely...