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...Army division will have aircraft designed to move into the field with the troops: the Mohawk, a light observation plane equipped for day or night reconnaissance; the Chinook and the Iroquois, heavy-duty helicopters that can carry combat squads; and the Caribou, a 150-m.p.h. transport plane that can haul up to 32 men. The choppers will be armed with machine guns and 2.75-in. rockets; the Mohawk observation planes may carry conventional bomb racks and napalm as well...
July 17, 1944, a Nazi truck convoy was crossing a pontoon bridge over the Po River in northern Italy when Allied bombers attacked. One driver was killed, but the trucks got across. Their cargo: a priceless haul of masterpieces, including the two pictured above, from Florence's Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace...
...present Labor Secretary, Willard Wirtz, has shown little inclination to follow Goldberg's example. And there is good cause for believing that Government intervention, over the long haul, can do more harm than good. Explains George P. Shultz, dean of the University of Chicago's Business School: "The Government should be a reluctant intervener, not a delighted intervener. Sometimes, before a strike even happens, the Administration speculates on just what a reasonable settlement might be. Now if I'm a bargainer and I hear this kind of talk, that takes the wraps off me. I know there...
...many a little town across the U.S., the basic economic resource was the railroad. Competition from trucks has made short-haul, small-load freight uneconomic for railroads, and many small-town stops have been abandoned. The Central of Georgia used to stop at Coffee Springs, Ala., and the town made a living by ginning and shipping cotton. But the railroad ripped out the tracks that ran through Coffee Springs, and today weeds grow in what used to be busy streets. "We're going nowhere," says a longtime Coffee Springs resident. "There's nowhere we want to go." Similarly...
...sure that it will be able to go ahead with the plane. Two local-service U.S. airlines to which Douglas had hoped to sell DC-9s recently decided instead to buy British Aircraft Corp.'s new One-Eleven, the only short-haul jetliner now in production in the free world...