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ISRAEL now has more tanks, armored vehicles and long-range artillery than ever, most of it from the U.S. Next year the Israeli air force will take delivery of the first of 25 F-15 Eagles, the newest, fastest (top speed: Mach 2.5) and most agile U.S. fighter. Israel's other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend...
...clapped or cheered at liftoff. We climbed steeply into a cloud bank. By the time we were out of it, our speed was nearly that of a conventional jetliner. Aside from a brief sinking feeling shortly after takeoff the flight was remarkably smooth in accelerating. A "mach meter," an aerial speedometer, in view of passengers in the first few rows reached mach 1. There were gasps and cheers. Then came an announcement from the cockpit: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have just become the first 100 passengers in the history of the world to pass the speed of sound...
Champagne flowed at a rate that rivaled that of the Olympus engines' fuel consumption. At mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h.) which we passed without a tremor, came the food-smoked salmon, rib of veal, château potatoes, cheese, apricot pastry, Chablis Vaudésir and Château Haut-Brion, plus liqueurs. Many passengers paid the smoothness of supersonic flight the ultimate compliment; they fell asleep. We touched down in Dakar, West Africa, right on schedule, refueled and were on our way to Rio in an hour. A minor engine problem held our speed below mach...
...other countries, particularly Iran, opt for the trim Mach 2-plus (1,500 m.p.h.) craft, total production could reach almost 1,500 planes worth $9.1 billion. The agreed "not-to-exceed" price of $6.09 million (v. $5.5 million for the Mirage) per basic airplane, could, if 1,500 planes are in fact sold, add $4.3 billion to the credit side of the U.S. trade balance during the next ten years. The long-range total could be even higher; such extras as spare parts and technical additions could boost the per-plane price to $7.6 million...
Although he lost under the sheer weight of his opponents' voting power, Alabama's Democratic Senator James Allen, 62, played the most adroit role in the three weeks of parliamentary maneuvering. Tall and paunchy, his langorous drawl camouflaging his Mach 4 mind, Allen used every trick, rule, ruse and gambit in the book to bedazzle his foes. At one point it seemed as if Allen had the Senate voting on the following snarled procedure: a motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order...