Word: iii
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Minister of Aviation Fred Mulley announced in the House of Commons that instead of its Boeings, BEA must buy made-in-Britain aircraft, with a choice between the Hawker-Siddeley Trident III, the Vickers VC-10 and the BAC-One-Eleven. The equivalent number of British airplanes would cost BEA about $56 million more than the Boeings, but, said Mulley, the government itself would make up the difference. Hearing the news, BEA Chairman Sir Anthony Milward, who holds his job only at the pleasure of the government, bleakly announced that the company's initials should no longer stand...
...recently sold to the government of Thailand. Stilwell planned to go along as far as Hawaii, then return to the mainland. Taking a three-day pass from Fort Bragg, he went to San Francisco, first to deliver a couple of speeches and then to see off his son, Joe III, 27, an Army captain who was leaving for duty in Viet...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City. At the Delacorte Theater in Manhattan's Central Park, the company will perform Measure for Measure through July 30, then Richard III, Aug. 3-27. A second, mobile company is touring the city's boroughs doing Macbeth in English and from Aug. 25 through Sept. 5, in Spanish. Presumably the battlements will resound with cries...
...that the peace was still troubled. But the rigid structures of Europe are rapidly changing, and so are the dogmas of decades past. The cold opposing currents are growing warmer and the hard opposing truths growing softer. As the 7,601st day passed into the 7,602nd, World War III did not seem in the offing. It had seldom, in fact, seemed farther away...
...McMurtrie Godley III, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Congo...