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...field, is building an odd-looking hybrid called the AAFSS (for Advanced Aerial Fire Support System) with stubby wings, a pusher propeller and rotor blades to give the Army more close-support firepower than the AH-1G. Another version, still experimental, would take off like a helicopter, fold its rotors in midair, fly on at 500 m.p.h. with normal jet engines...
...Quang was building up a Buddhist movement modeled after the Communist organizations that he had seen Ho employ against the French. To combat Diem's police, he organized special teams of young monks with flit guns filled with vinegar and red pepper. He had spies tucked neatly inside every fold of the Diem administration. He penetrated the regime's elite Cong Hoa youth, often got possession of top secret documents within 24 hours after they had been issued. One such paper was by Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu: Communiqué No. 3 on how to deal with the Buddhists. Later...
...almost as many as all last year. The fatality total is likely to grow because planes are becoming more capacious, skyways are getting more crowded, and the number of passengers-150 million this year-is expanding by 15% annually. Figuring that the number of passenger-miles will multiply 20-fold within 35 years, Bo Lundberg, head of Sweden's Aeronautical Foundation, forecasts that fatalities will soar to an intolerable 10,000 a year unless the accident rate is sharply reduced. It almost surely will be. But there will always be accidents. "If we wanted absolute safety," says Douglas Aircraft...
Even before the era of computerized flight arrives, the ordinary passenger can do much to lengthen his own odds on security. He can make sure to find out where his exit door is and how it works, where his life jacket is, and what position to fold into in the unlikely event of a crash landing (head on knees, arms locked around legs). He should keep his safety belt buckled throughout the flight, as most pilots do; it can prevent a bad injury in case the plane hits sudden turbulence. The common belief that seats in the tail are safer...
...Merrick foresaw the worst: if he did not do something drastic, and do it fast, the advance sale would vanish and Fanny would fold. He did something so drastic that dear old Broadway hasn't been quite the same since. He promptly signed on a raft of new pressagents and launched a promotion campaign three times as vast and ten times as vulgar as anything the theater had ever seen...