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Such an incident would have gone virtually unnoticed in any major city in the U.S. In London, Fleet Street and the BBC treated the shootout as if it were a holocaust. The reason: that was only the third shooting of a suspect by a London policeman since...
Guam's Andersen Air Force Base was the chief jumping-off point for U.S. bombers during the days between the sudden U.S. resumption of the bombing and its equally sudden cessation last week. When TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel visited the huge B-52 fleet there last April, the mood was mild and the pilots easygoing. Last week Nickel found a far grimmer spirit-at least until the bombing runs over the North were halted once again. His report...
...from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles is a little like watching a wayward eel float through a fleet of submarines...
These holdings pale beside his other operations. His parent company, Kokusai Kogyo (International Enterprises), was started in Tokyo in 1947 with a fleet of dilapidated charcoal-burning buses, and now embraces 38 subsidiaries, including ski areas and bowling alleys, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and trading houses that import everything from American cars to golf clubs. Last year the company earned $26 million on revenues of $330 million. Osano is also the biggest private shareholder in Japan Air Lines, the state-operated flag carrier, and a major investor in All Nippon Airways, the domestic carrier...
...swing-wing F14, which can take off from land runways or carriers and has a primary mission of protecting the fleet against air attack, has proved extremely effective in tests. Actual construction of the planes in the latest Navy order is not set to start until mid-1974, and company officials believe that they can work out a satisfactory arrangement with the Navy before then...