Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Who's Unfair? Oddly enough, high school kids-even Negro high school kids, who supposedly bear the brunt of inequity-are not terribly perturbed. Draft-bound Donnie E. Smith, 18. a senior at New York's Charles Evans Hughes High School, has kept his cool about it all...
Though the number of helicopters in commercial use has climbed from 936 in 1960 to 2,390 today, the main lift in the industry's fortunes has come from Viet Nam. The Defense Department last year took 80% of the $875 million output of the seven major producers: Textron...
Drunken Ducks. The problems inherent in helicopters make such prowess the more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary rotor craft in 1483, but even after Russian-born Igor Sikorsky introduced the U.S.'s first successful commercial version 25 years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely...
The Green-Pea Run. Manufacturers, of course, are as delighted as the Pentagon with the improving technology of military helicopters. This year Fairchild-Hiller, Bell and Hughes will bring out utility and executive models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department...
Because they live with the constant threat of expulsion for the slightest offenses-real or imagined-Western correspondents stationed in Moscow tend to turn out supercautious, colorless copy. Not CBS's Hughes Rudd. With characteristic zest, he breaks the general journalistic rule, and for some reason he is allowed...