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Nine manufacturers have submitted ingenious proposals for doing the job. The Martin design utilizes hot engine gases flowing past a V-shaped tail to keep the tail high even at 28 m.p.h. General Dynamics proposed a detachable pod for carrying the soldiers. Lockheed features a more conventional fuse lage, but its high wings are detachable so the craft can be transported in cargo planes. Most of the firms, however, could not meet the original cost goal of a $100,000 aircraft, figured the cost above $200,000. And once a manufacturer is selected, it will take up to five years...
...made up of the letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work opened at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, and to top it off, somebody who obviously cared stole one of his paintings from another gallery...
Recife, capital of Brazil's parched and impoverished Northeast, is a sizzling time fuse of a city. Its population of 900,000 has doubled in the past 15 years; more than 500,000 of its inhabitants live and starve in slums on stilts called mucambos. Who speaks for Catholicism in Recife is vitally important to the church in Brazil. Now, to be Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Pope Paul VI has picked a spunky little churchman who has never had a diocese or even a parish of his own. Overjoyed at being handed one of the toughest, most critical...
...colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual-was Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
...make their new thrust even more powerful, the family's two main branches-in Paris and London-are starting to fuse again in a series of ventures, after a separation of more than half a century. Together they have created firms to put up buildings on the Continent, to make industrial loans in the U.S. and to tap the mineral wealth of an area in Canada bigger than England and Wales combined. The two also recently formed a joint company-appropriately called Second Continuation Ltd.-to give the French house a stake in the British bank and enable them...