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...flights progress, the computers will keep track of them, alert the controllers if any plane is failing to live up to its flight plan. The first data-processing center is scheduled to be put into limited operation by late 1962 in Boston. By 1970, when the first Mach 3 airliners are expected to come into service, the computer network will be so complete, FAA men hope, that a plane will be able to have its landing clearance even before it takes...
...M.P.H. AIRLINER may be on the way. President Eisenhower will ask Congress for $75 million to start development of a Mach 3 supersonic transport, which would cruise at altitudes of 55,000-75,000 ft., carry as many as 150 passengers. Government would have to contribute about $500 million before the first SST could fly in 1970. A likely builder: North American Aviation, now making the 2,000-m.p.h...
...Japan's emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The usual Mach 2 patter, this time originating at the U.S. Air Force Academy...
They did just fine. A staff of six devoted a full two months to the project, consulted occasionally with Artist Artzybasheff, and produced seven lively models-made of Styrofoam with a papier-maché; and plastic covering. The wide-eyed, camera-wielding Tiros caricature became a wonderfully evocative, 8-ft.-wide monster; and the nose on the 8-ft.-long Vanguard III would arouse the envy of even Los Angeles Neighbor Jimmy Durante...