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State of War. The Panthers are the largest and fastest growing of the ultraradical Negro groups. Lately, Panthers have been opening dingy storefront headquarters in Los Angeles, Seattle, Newark and Washington, D.C. Chapters are rapidly being established by Stokely Carmichael, who, along with some other former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has switched to the Panthers. Estimates of their national membership run from just under 1,000 to upwards...
...whom lost to amateurs, Ashe himself defeated three pros. To get past Okker, a dogged retriever and a swift, agile shotmaker, Ashe had to play his best tennis ever. He hit 26 service aces, prompting Old Pro Pancho Gonzales to marvel that Arthur's cannonball was "the fastest serve since my own." Ashe's flat, accurate backhands were no less ferocious, drawing raves of "fantastic" and "tremendous" from another old master, Don Budge. Okker prolonged the contest as much as he could, but finally stood helpless as Ashe ran out the last game at love. Then Ashe walked...
...obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault bar at 17 ft. 9 in. to break the world record...
Labor accounts for one of the industry's fastest-growing expenses, as evidenced by the salary increases of roughly 20% that airline pilots have recently been winning. Air-traffic delays, brought on in large measure by the proliferation of scheduled flights, have cost the airlines some $90 million so far this year. But new aircraft purchases are far and away the most expensive item. Under contract, U.S. airlines will take delivery of 451 new jet planes this year, at a cost of $2.6 billion. In all, they have commitments or options to buy $7.6 billion worth of jets...
...Conn., looks like one of those venerable edifices in an old New Eng land mill town. Inside, the company that makes its headquarters there has won an entirely different image. Under Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Baldrige, the 166-year-old Scovill Man ufacturing Co. has become one of the fastest growing enterprises...