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...speech, on top of the growing troubles in the front negotiations, was enough for Argentina's navy. Headed by Rear Admiral Jorge Julio Palma. 46. commander of the Puerto Belgrano naval base, a group of officers wanted an end to all talk about elections, argued for the ouster of Guido as President and the establishment of a "benevolent dictatorship" that would attempt to stabilize the economy and "normalize" the political situation. Though his forces were small-25,000 navymen and 17,000 marines, compared with 87,000 men in the army and 22,000 in the air force-Admiral...
Reluctant. Some of those military officers whom McNamara had branded as ignorant began turning up before McClellan's subcommittee-and got in some licks of their own. Rear Admiral Frederick Ashworth, the top Navy TFX evaluator, declared: "My personal opinion is that the Boeing airplane is a superior airplane to meet the Navy requirements in a superior fashion." Air Force Colonel John Gregory, co-chairman of a military evaluation team that found the Boeing design superior in some respects, testified that he was called by a Defense Department civilian, was told that "they had prepared some documents that were...
...years past, Chevy's Corvette sports car could hardly stay on the same track with a serious-minded Ferrari. But the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray is new from its independent rear suspension to its fastback body shell. On a casual test lap, a Sting Ray zipped around the twisting, 5.2-mile Sebring course in 3 min. 12 sec. -beating the official track record set by Ferrari last year. Then came Ford with the hybrid AC Cobras, developed by ex-racer Carroll Shelby, with a light British body hiding a huge 350-h.p. Ford engine. The Cobras claimed...
...incoming air and channels it through pin-size holes into ducts that lead to streamlined nacelles hanging under each wing. Inside each of those nacelles, a pair of light, powerful gas turbines-one for the forward part of the wing, one for the more turbulent air in the rear-generate the suction that keeps the system operating...
More spare fuel tanks were installed in the rear compartment, where the remaining 32 passengers sat. At peak capacity, a TU-114 can carry 220 passengers, although normal seating is 170. But on the Moscow-Havana run, the figure is about 50. which must make it the costliest per capita flight in the world...