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...Four U.S. Navy Skyraiders, slow, piston-driven fighter-bombers, were jumped by two MIG jets over North Viet Nam. The American pilots went down to the deck, dodged around hills and through valleys. When one pursuing MIG fired two rockets that went wide, two of the Skyraiders got a bead on the Red jet, nailed it with 20-mm. cannon fire, and sent it down in flames...
...music has a weird and unsettling effect, befitting the Leonid Andreyev drama for which it was written; the black maskers of the title are supposed to be the powerful but unfathomable forces that act on man's soul. Three other short, appealing works by Americans (Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness) are played by Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra...
Aaron Copland was presented with the Harvard Glee Club Medal by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation at its annual dinner last night. He shared the prize with Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, Emeritus...
...which account for about 60% of the company's revenues, increased to a record 43,011 units, are expected to climb to 50,000 this year. Saab is still producing and profiting from its Draken-35 jet fighters, the current mainstay of the Swedish air force, and the piston-engine Safir trainers that are used by Sweden and five foreign nations...
...little wonder that the airlines are on a buying spree. Since 1962, jet transports have proved to be flying cash registers-twice as fast and three times as profitable as the best piston-engine planes. So efficient are the jets that Boeing 707s, for instance, break even with passenger loads as low as 39% of capacity. The industry's load average rose to 55% last year, enough to return the eleven U.S. trunk carriers 11% on their $2.3 billion investment, the highest rate in 15 years. This has produced some speculation that the Civil Aeronautics Board may order fare...