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...streaking altitudes on Instrument Flight Rules. Moving their transparent markers ("shrimp boats") alongside little blips, they warn of nearby traffic, give directions, order changes in headings and altitudes. If a plane is a 550-m.p.h. jet, the controller gives the pilot 100 miles' clear space ahead, 100 behind; prop-driven planes get 35 miles. Through controllers and towers, miles of Teletype wire and a host of electronic machines, schedules are juggled, flights shifted, with split-second decision and never-ending attention to detail...
This week, hobbling on a cane to prop a leg hurt on an Italian holiday last summer, the old Chancellor prepared to fly to London to persuade Britain that the Federal Republic has not put all its eggs in De Gaulle's basket...
...true member of his trade, went on to pay his respects to those whose tribute he accepts: "They don't even know how to sit at the table correctly. They think you should tie your napkin round your neck. Not all of them know that you should not prop your elbows on the table. Some come in without a tie or a jacket." In short, they lack class...
Club vice-president Warren Young feels that the team can certainly match the opposition in rugby experience, and probably also in power. Two new men, freshman Bob Downing at outisde center and Dick McGugan at prop, round out an already powerful group, and give the Crimson its best fall squad in years...
...lesser peepers operate on IV. Hollywood sound stages, dominated until a few years ago by all sorts of B movies from gangster yarns to Abbott-and-Costello comedies, now harbor an endless succession of Private Eye productions (they are B pictures too, but nobody calls them that). Hollywood prop men account for more blank cartridges in a week than the L.A. police force can match with live bulletsin the line of duty in a year Everyone is getting into the act. At Warners, where TV production accounts for a large part of the company income, Private Eye shows pack...