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Died. Edward Tirella, 42, interior decorator and sometime actor (he designed the set for The Sandpiper, had a small role in the film), longtime friend and frequent house guest of Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke; of multiple fractures and internal injuries suffered on the Duke estate; in Newport, R.I. Leav ing the estate in a car driven by Miss Duke, Tirella got out to open the iron gates, was crushed to death when the car suddenly shot forward...
...fingers calloused from handshak ing, the Governor has used bus, heli copter and his family's jet-prop plane, The Wayfarer, to bound from one up state community to the next. He has clambered up ladders at construction sites, tossed footballs with college boys, delivered weighty university lectures on federalism, at one point even dropped in on a Jewish circumcision celebration...
...built detectors that spot guerrillas by their slightest sounds or movements. They can literally sniff an enemy's presence by the very odors of his body, food or clothing. "What we are trying here," says Physicist R. D. Holbrook, who heads the U.S. contingent at MRDC, "is noth ing less than a systematic approach to the entire counterinsurgency problem. There's time to do in Thailand what we could have done elsewhere - including Viet Nam - if only we had started soon enough...
...fall of Gia Binh is not likely to deter the Communist buildup. Marine units patrolling the border of the DMZ report almost constant contact with the North Vietnamese, including three fresh battalions from the North; two full divisions, including the newly formed 341st, are believed to be group ing along the DMZ to join the 324B when the rains come. To meet the pos sibility of a major offensive, the Ma rines have moved five battalions up to the border, transformed a remote out post at Dong Ha into a major base, complete with airstrip and facilities...
...prototype Concorde in February 1968, test a second prototype in the summer of '68, and have their SST operational by 1971. The British Aircraft Corp. is building the nose and tail sections for the 1,450 m.p.h., 140-passenger Con corde. Britain's Bristol Siddeley is mak ing the engine. France's Sud-Aviation is responsible for the wings and midsection. To break even, the builders will have to sell about 140 Concordes at $16 million each; already 60 are on order, including eight for Pan Am, six apiece for TWA, United and American airlines, three...