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...DESTRUCTION. Down from its 1957 peak of 88 squadrons and 2,000 planes, ADC still has 59 squadrons, 1,400 fighters. Among the weapons they carry are infra-red Falcon missiles, heat-seeking Sidewinders, Genie air-to-air rockets, capable of toting nuclear warheads for demolishing enemy bomber formations. The fighters are linked to radar sites by the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System (SAGE), which guides them straight to their targets, does everything but fire their weapons. ADC also mans six Bomarc surface-to-air missile squadrons in the northeastern U.S.; two Bomarc squadrons in Canada and hundreds of Army...
...French critic: "Even in a country that has no great culinary pride, an 8-ft.-wide hamburger of soggy casein and canvas is artistically unappetizing." Noguchi's two-ton Sun had to be floated up the Seine on a barge, and Calder's two-ton stabile Falcon required a derrick to hoist it over the museum's walls...
FICTION 1. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (1 last week) 2. The Ambassador, West (2) 3. Hotel, Hailey (3) 4. The Source, Michener (5) 5. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (6) 6. Herzog, Bellow (4) 7. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (7) 8. The Man, Wallace (9) 9. Night of Camp David, Knebel 10. A Pillar of Iron, Caldwell...
...only 5% of the actual retail price. A $500 color TV set will be trimmed about $30, and a $160 saxophone about $10. As for automobiles, this year's reduction will amount to 3% of the manufacturer's price-from $42.67 for a two-door Ford Falcon to $139.85 for a Lincoln Continental...
...Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier...