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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days he tried to hitch a plane ride to the Biafran battle zone. Finally, he talked himself onto a decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...upcoming generation of jets, designed to carry more than twice as many passengers as current equipment (see following story), poses all sorts of challenges for IATA's 104 member airlines. Nonetheless, the conference, which will set passenger traffic policies for the next two years, was moving at piston-plane speed. In all likelihood, the conferees will be embroiled for another month in wading through an agenda that runs to 18 volumes and covers some 2,000 proposals involving routes, possible surcharges for supersonic-transport tickets and ways to meet growing competition from non-IATA charter airlines. The outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: A New Era--for Baggage Anyway | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...about in Cannes, Hammarskjold's "new era of real mass air transportation" was taking physical form 7,000 miles away in Everett, Wash. Towed out of a huge Boeing Co. plant came the first aircraft of the new era: the 747 "jumbo jet." After considerable ceremony, the gigantic plane was turned over to technicians to be prepared for its first test flight. Although that flight is not scheduled until December, the 747 is very impressive even on the ground, and its potential is immense. The plane is 231 ft. long, will have a fully loaded weight of 355 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All but off the Ground | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Secret Search contributes less on a theoretical plane than Abuse of Power, but it makes Draper's observations come alive. It shows how the misconceptions of politicians operate through institutions and people in the Johnson Administration. Further, it shows how these institutions themselves contributed to diplomatic failure...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: The Secret Search | 10/2/1968 | See Source »

When Major General Duong Van Minh attempted to return to his native South Viet Nam in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance and he had to head back into exile in neighboring Thailand. It was a humiliating rebuff for burly "Big Minh,"* the man who ousted Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and who rose to chief of state before he was shelved and then banished in a subsequent coup. Last year Minh tried another route-by filing as a presidential candidate-only to have his application rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Invitation to an Exile | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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