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...AAFSS is a "compound" aircraft. Like a conventional helicopter, the single-turbine Cheyenne has a main rotor and tail-mounted stabilizing rotor for hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings. In the air, a simple twist of the control-stick grip sets the pitch of the rear-mounted pusher propeller for 240-m.p.h. cross-country dashes on the craft's stubby wings...
...Rutherford, N.J., the spy was Mrs. Linda Hobbie, an attractive 20-year-old girl enrolled in film arts, biology and oilpainting classes to keep an eye on a coed once arrested for a narcotics vio lation. Hired by county police, Mrs. Hobbie soon discovered that she liked the suspected pusher too well to report her, blew her cover by telling all to one of her profs...
Robert Thomas Hannah, 31, was a petty hoodlum and narcotics peddler who helped Illinois authorities trap a big-time dope pusher. Last week, his frozen body, containing six bullets, was found in the snow at the edge of a forest preserve outside Chicago. He thereby achieved a dubious fame: his murder marked the 1,000th gangster killing since the Chicago Crime Commission began keeping count in 1919. Only 13 have ended in convictions...
This community is running scared," an administrator at Brandeis University said yesterday. "To my knowledge, there have been several suicide attempts by freshmen who were taking drugs, and at least one students pusher has left the University already...
...planes. Ling-Temco-Vought's tilt-wing XC-142A can fly straight up, backward at 35 m.p.h. or forward at 400 m.p.h. Lockheed, a relative newcomer to the field, is building an odd-looking hybrid called the AAFSS (for Advanced Aerial Fire Support System) with stubby wings, a pusher propeller and rotor blades to give the Army more close-support firepower than the AH-1G. Another version, still experimental, would take off like a helicopter, fold its rotors in midair, fly on at 500 m.p.h. with normal jet engines...