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It is not every day, or every year, that a company gets a $2 billion contract in one swoop. Last week California's Lockheed Aircraft did-for construction of the world's largest transport plane, the C-5A. After months of deliberating over three proposals, the Defense Department...
A flock of pigeons burst skyward into the midday Yokohama sun, released in celebration from their papier-mâché prison. Bands blared and confetti swirled over the waters of Tokyo Bay. Japan, the world's biggest shipbuilder, was launching the world's biggest ship: the Tokyo...
Searchlights raked the skies. Limousines nosed up to the blue-and-white canopy of Indianapolis' Clowes (pronounced Clues) Memorial Hall, unloading passengers into the glare of flood lights and popping flashbulbs. Remarked one ticket holder: "In all honesty, I'd probably not walk across the street to hear...
Ohio Democrat Stephen Young: "There really isn't any government in South Viet Nam at all, and there are too many hard-nosed militarists prevailing nowadays. We're trapped there."
Reggie Maudling, Sir Alec's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a relaxed Saint Bernard of a man. Ted Heath, an energetic "technocrat," made his reputation as Britain's hard-nosed representative in the ill-fated Common Market negotiations. Victory by either will represent a sharp break in the...