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...fellow who stands 7 ft. l 1/16 in. can cover a lot of ground when he has a mind to, and Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, 31 , is a peripatetic Polyphemus. In ten years as a pro, Wilt has moved four times - jumping from the Harlem Globetrotters to National Basketball Association clubs in Philadelphia and San Francisco before returning to Philadelphia. Last week the greatest offensive player in the history of basketball hit the road again...
...Passenger Potential. It might also signal a new era in civilian-pas-senger and freight transportation. Lockheed plans to put out a nonmilitary version of the C-5-the L-500-by 1971. In an all-passenger configuration, the L-500 could conceivably carry up to 1,000 people, which would allow airlines to slice New York-London fares...
Initially, Lockheed plans to produce and sell the L-500 as an all-cargo plane only-but the economics should be equally dramatic. Airlines presently account for less than 1% of all North Atlantic freight traffic, but have been making encouraging inroads on ocean shipping on certain types of goods-no-tably clothing. The L-500's huge payload in its 121-ft.-long cargo area would enable airlines to carry freight for as little as 2? per ton-mile, low enough to give surface shipping a great deal of competition on a broader range of cargo...
Servan-Schreiber, at 44 the editor-publisher of the successful weekly newsmagazine L'Express, is more American than French in the manner of his criticism. Deadly serious, he says flatly that "our back is to the wall" and warns that France and other European countries will fall disastrously behind America if they do not learn its methods quickly...
...Following his sentencing Wednesday morning Dr. Benjamin Spock held a news conference and then gave David L. Horn the following interview...