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...opening skirmish in this paper blockade was fought about a month ago, when the company got a Paris court to issue an injunction against payment by two French firms for a $1,400,000 shipment of copper headed from El Teniente to Le Havre aboard a West German freighter. Kennecott claimed that the copper is in effect stolen property...
...transatlantic sailboat race a month ago, most were still alone, all alone last week, somewhere on the wide, wide sea between Plymouth, England, and Newport, R.I. They were still battling cold and cramp, waves and weariness; still leary of sleep lest their untended craft be run down by a freighter or collide with an iceberg. They were still in danger of drifting aimlessly with broken equipment, or of being swept overboard with no help near...
...taxing problem, and the Russians have given up trying to solve it. Headed Nixon's way by freighter is a gift from Moscow as capitalist as they come: a hydrofoil boat. If it arrives in time for the Republican Convention, Nixon will be able to rooster-tail through the waters of Biscayne Bay between his Florida home and the convention hall in true and glorious helmsman's style...
...superjets were there: Lockheed's L-1011, the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 and Boeing's giant 747 freighter. Overhead, jet fighters of the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds, the Navy's Blue Angels and the R.A.F.'s Red Arrows performed dramatic aerial acrobatics. But the real stars last week at Transpo 72, the $10 million Department of Transportation show at Dulles International Airport near Washington, were little vehicles that will never leave the ground: the Personal Rapid Transit systems, or PRTs...
...without giving up their determination to expand their influence in the world. So, despite the favorable portents, the summit is certain to bring very hard bargaining and conceivably even ultimate disappointment for the U.S. Furthermore, over the summit lies the danger of some accident-the bombing of a Soviet freighter in Haiphong, perhaps, or a confrontation between U.S. warships and the growing Russian flotilla off the North Vietnamese coast. "It could still come unstuck," worried a White House aide shortly before Nixon's departure...