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...Force this year at a cost of more than $100 million. "With an aircraft like this," said LTV Executive Vice President Paul Thayer, as he talked of the brush-fire wars the plane might be used for, "a clearing in a forest performs like a multimillion-dollar runway...
...mostly the Filipino operators sell the explosives to dynamite-fishermen (who package it in Coke bottles to kill fish in Manila Bay) and trade the empty cases on Manila's booming scrap-metal market. Pilferers have stolen airfield landing lights, miles of fencing, electric cables, strips of portable runway, and even a five-ton landing chain...
...speeds of 560 m.p.h. More important, it can land and take off at nearly any commercial airport now serviced by ordinary piston planes. The advent of the DC-9 and other short-haul jets will bring the jet age within the reach of nearly every run and runway. The new planes will gradually replace the old piston and turboprop jets on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which now account for more than 60% of the world's passenger business...
Died. The Most Rev. Edward Daly, 70, Roman Catholic bishop of Des Moines since 1948, one of 22 American churchmen serving on Ecumenical Council commissions; of injuries sustained when the TWA Boeing 707 he was taking to Athens veered off the runway, slammed into a steamroller and exploded during an aborted takeoff at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, killing 48 of 73 passengers and crew...
...Ordaz visit was a round of private talks with Johnson on trade, migrant labor, the Alliance for Progress, and the like. But before they began, the Mexicans found out how extensive L.B.J. hospitality can be. Lyndon jockeyed out to meet the Díaz Ordaz plane on the asphalt runway behind the ranch house in his electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even broader than the President...