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...richer than most (an allowance of ?6,000 or $14,400 a year), her friends have to call her "Ma'am," and a private detective accompanies her everywhere. She also has decidedly more fringe benefits, what with her furnished three-room suite in Buckingham Palace, a fleet of helicopters available to whisk her here and there, access to the world's most famous and fascinating people and invitations to a constant round of elite parties and balls. "In a way," the spokesman adds, "she is a sort of superdeb. She has a part-time...
Next week the airlines will carry the millionth passenger to travel on a 747. Pan American World Airways, which has the largest fleet of the planes, has been flying them 64% full but can come out ahead with only a 40% load. Largely because of the 747, Pan Am turned in a profit in May after eight months of losses. Trans World Airlines calculates that the cost of carrying one passenger for one mile comes to 2.3? on the 747, compared with 2.7? on the Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. The big plane has done so well that some...
...rough sailing in his career. Patrolling the Pacific in his PBY, he was shot down by the Japanese and wounded in the hip. He reached safety only after surviving another Japanese attack. Decorated for his war service, he rose quickly through the ranks, taking command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in 1962, the Pacific Fleet two years later. In 1965 he was named commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, becoming the only Navyman to have commanded both oceans. In 1967 he was named Chief of Naval Operations...
...Navy's "youngest everything," he was the service's youngest peacetime rear admiral at 44, and now is its youngest C.N.O. at 49. Zumwalt spent 20 months in Viet Nam, where he was responsible for the success of the Navy's "brown water" river fleet...
During the '50's, when Nixon was Vice-President, John Foster Dulles liked to explain that he wanted to build up a gigantic bomber fleet that could contain communism simply by devastating any country that liked land reform too much...