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...strains the mind, however, to imagine that when the United States quashes Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong, American bodies will be any safer from amphibious attacks from other "third world" powers. But it is not impossible that LBJ has decided to use the Vietnam war budget to provide secret funds for a new network of underwater electronic barriers in the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Rio Grande to halt all future North Vietnamese infiltration...
...pass the break-even point). Also, another plane will be in the air by 1971, a conventionally-designed, subsonic "jumbo jet." This jet will carry upwards of 500 passengers (against 280 for the SST) at 700 miles per hour without a sonic boom; its proven design will be safer; its large capacity will reduce airport congestion; and its fares will be cheaper--perhaps half those of the SST, which may be as much as 25 per cent higher than current jet fares...
...aviation's greatest hazards are pilot error and fire. Last week two potent weapons were introduced that should lessen these hazards and make the skies safer. At Dayton, Air Force researchers demonstrated a material that they say will greatly reduce explosions and fires in airplane fuel tanks. And in Manhattan, American Airlines an nounced development of a Big Brother device that will watch nearly every move a pilot makes during flight, spot his errors and provide information to help him correct them before they cause any real difficulties...
...Russians have occasionally diverted themselves by buzzing Western planes. On the way Hughes encountered no Russians but created a minor sensation among ground personnel. "What are you?" cried the startled radar controller at the Berlin field. Hughes reluctantly returned from Europe by commercial airliner. Flying, he feels, is safer than gambling-and in the end cheaper...
...Trenton, N.J., Edward Munson fell out of his tree house one day and cut his arm. Apparently the scar was lasting. Now, as building inspector for the rural Long Island town of Riverhead, N.Y., Munson, 53, has started a controversial campaign to make tree houses safer. Recently, after a Riverhead resident complained about an unsightly tree house, Munson began to require parents to obtain tree-house building permits, and issued a detailed set of specifications governing their construction: the houses must be no more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must be at least 42 in. high and floor...