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Because airlines needed a medium-haul plane that could keep on earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven...
...passenger Chinook are able not only to harry the elusive enemy with rocket and strafing attacks but to carry foot soldiers into battle at 150 m.p.h., eliminating bone-wearying marches through flooded paddies and jungles. Four $2,000,000 Sikorsky CH54A Skycranes, which look gawky but can haul 87 men or a field hospital under their bellies, have so far retrieved 100 downed aircraft-$37 million worth-to fly and fight again...
Harvard's Baker and Allen will be stepping into a real hornet's nest in the distance races. The IC4A team title will be won by either Villanova or Maryland, and only if they score heavily in the distances can Villanova over-haul the defending champion Terrapins...
...makeup and introduced Western-style leads. "All my staff were sure they'd be ruined," she recalls, "that my poor mother would be ruined, that their mothers would be ruined." But "Greeks like everything that everybody else likes," says the ambitious publisher, who is on a crusade to haul her countrymen into the 20th century...
...company since U.S. Steel in 1901. Going into business on June 1 will be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul 12% of the nation's freight and serve 2,816 communities from Montreal to Cairo, Ill., and from Chesapeake Bay to uppermost Michigan. The deal between two century-old rivals climaxes nine years of negotiations, which began with huddles among the late Central Chief Robert R. Young, current Central President...