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...adjustable wings retracted into attack position, a camouflage-mottled F-111, nee the TFX, last week was highballing across Thailand at treetop level on its way to a bombing mission in North Viet Nam's panhandle. Suddenly, something went wrong, and the U.S.'s most advanced warplane crashed somewhere in the dense jungle of Thailand or western Laos. It was the third F-111 crash since a squadron of six of the $6,000,000 swing-wings made their combat debut in Viet Nam less than a month...
...songs--including "Everything's Coming Up Roses," unfortunately--fall detectably out of her range. More important, she can act. David Dunton (rumored to be her husband) can act as well, and makes Herbie a somewhat more complex character than one is used to encountering in a musical. As Gypsy (nee Louise), Phyllis Ward overcomes a piece of miscasting nicely, and as her sister June, Ferrell Page is fine. Also keep your eyes out for a broad the name of Shannon Scarry--but if you don't, it's all right: you can't miss...
Female Fellini. Aline Saarinen, nee Bernstein, keeps her work bright, light and informative, without ever making the highbrow seem high-blown. A Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, whose girlhood goal was to be "intelluptuous," she got a job on Art News "because I could spell Pollaiuolo,"* rose to managing editor in 1944, a year later joined the New York Times as an art critic. While on an assignment in 1952, she interviewed and later married Finnish-born Architect Eero Saarinen (it was her second marriage). After his death eight years later, she appeared on a 1962 CBS special on Lincoln...
...order to pay the bills. His fortunes have since improved. In addition to the three royal residences assigned him, he now has a villa at Aqaba. His real home, however, is a modest converted farmhouse in a suburb of Amman, where he lives with his second wife, Princess Muna (nee Toni Gardiner), a British army officer's daughter whom he married in 1961 after divorcing his first wife. (Toni became a Moslem.) He rises at 7, takes turns with his wife fixing breakfast, plays with their two small sons (Prince Abdullah, 5, and Prince Feisal, 3) until...
...waste disposal for Fresno (Calif.) County. Lockheed, though still the top Pentagon contractor, with $1.5 billion worth of 1966 plane and missile orders, is battling General Dynamics and Litton Industries for a Navy ship contract?to the dismay of the nation's proudly inefficient conventional shipbuilders. Cleveland's TRW (nee Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is designing a hospital operations system for Edmonton, Canada, studying ways to improve highspeed ground transportation for the Federal Government, devising a system by which California cities can cope more effectively with their growing pains...