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...Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple of artillery battalions, and eight Hawker Hunter jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Commonwealth: The Day That Wasn't | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...over Royalist areas by parachute, while camel caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen. On top of a previous $400 million arms deal with Britain and the U.S., Saudi King Feisal announced fortnight ago that he is buying twelve British-built Hawker Siddeley jets, and plans a military airfield near Qizan, within ten miles of the Yemen border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Long Breath in Yemen | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...about that kind of a day. The HSA ice cream hawker had forgotten to bring spoons. The audience of 50 was composed mainly of the venerable old guard, four spooning couples, Carter Lord's girlfriend, and refugees from the Dunster House softball game...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Whips Judges, 27-9 | 5/4/1966 | See Source »

Merger Drive. Europeans are not likely to see a Siddeley-Messerschmitt or a Rolls-Fiat company for some time, but, mergers within the British aviation industry itself are in the offing. The government hopes to induce a merger between the two big airframe manufacturers, British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley, and perhaps even to try to unite the two proud jet engine builders, Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley. The combined companies presumably would be able to lift productivity, which is only one-third as high as in the U.S. aerospace industry, and two-thirds as high as in the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Changing Altitude | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...stay in the Soviet Union, she said. "I thought that, being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia expressing bitterness against the U.S. sold for $3,000 at the Manhattan autograph hawker's auction. Three letters from Jackie Kennedy to Actor Basil Rathbone went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 8, 1965 | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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