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...ADVANCED MANNED STRATEGIC AIRCRAFT. The Air Force, reluctant to rely entirely on missiles to penetrate Soviet and Chinese defenses, wants to start work on an AMSA fleet to replace the aging B-52s and B-58s. Foster favors the AMSA, but not immediately. He prefers to improve weapons and penetration devices on the older bombers...
South Korea will receive its first U.S. destroyer this month, the second by the end of the year. At a special meeting in Washington next month between the U.S. and South Korean defense ministers. South Korea hopes to persuade the U.S. to provide two more destroyers, plus a fleet of speedy (30 to 40 knots) patrol boats that can keep up with the fast Soviet engines that power the North Korean spy boats along the coast. Park is also pressing the U.S. to provide faster planes. Right now, his air force has 300 fighters, mostly F-86 Sabre jets, compared...
...years, E.A.A. has compiled an estimable safety record, survived the turbulence of independence from Britain, built up a jet-age fleet that includes three Super VC-10s and three Comet 4s. Grandly declaring itself "the fastest-growing airline in black Africa," it has more than doubled revenues from 1962 to last year's record $36.4 million. And few airlines can claim anything like its earnings record. For each of the past 14 years, E.A.A. has had a comfortable profit; last year it cleared an estimated...
...candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening at the Hog Farm, a hippie commune in Southern California. Other possibilities being considered: a lie-in at Chicago's O'Hare Field to prevent Democratic delegates from landing or, failing that, a fleet of fake cabs to pick up delegates and dump them off in Wisconsin...
Still as lean and trim as a ship of the line, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, of Burma, 67, sailed into Manhattan to fire off a salute to such old friends as Darryl F. Zanuck, Spyros P. Skouras and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at the Americana Hotel. The earl first fell in with moviefolk back in the 1930s, when they donated movies to entertain the crews on Royal Navy warships, so it was only natural to return the favor by helping out at a fund-raising drive for show business's Variety Clubs International charities. Queen...