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Eventually we made it into downtown Indianapolis. We had to go by taxi. It wasn't that the McCarthy people couldn't supply enough cars to pick us up; their gas pool had run out of money. The cabbie showed us the area's few points of interest. Indianapolis is a city whose parks are littered with preserved tanks and artillery the way some people clutter their coffee tables with bronzed baby shoes. Many of its public buildings are self-conscious copies of old Washington favorites. Its war memorials offer some of the most embarrassing examples of social realism west...
Aimed at local air-taxi outfits, which have sprung up around the world to serve the short runs now spurned by big jets, the Islander is in remarkable demand. Since the first production model appeared barely 18 months ago, 16 air-taxi companies have put the plane into service from Scotland's Orkney Islands to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. More than 200, worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman...
...There, while investigating a surge in charters of their crop-dusters, Britten and Norman found that the planes were being used to fill an air-travel void left by the retirement of World War II-vintage DC-3s. The partners wasted no time in starting a study of air-taxi services in all parts of the world. What they found was that the average flight was less than 50 miles. The high speed (180 m.p.h. and up) of the typical four-to-five-passenger, $70,000 executive plane then in use on most such runs hardly made sense to them...
...Thais pushing for an agreement that would limit the rights of U.S. soldiers in Thailand. Two weeks ago, in an effort to settle the dispute on their own terms, the Thais haled into court a U.S. Air Force sergeant who had been in an argument with a Thai taxi driver; they slapped him in jail for five days until he agreed to pay a $50 fine. Says General Pra-phas Charusathien, strongman of the Bangkok regime: "There is no question that foreign servicemen are under the jurisdiction of Thai courts of law. Of course they...
...shilling piece (a florin). They are, however, the only two coins that are interchangeable in the entire series, which will be completed by the time conversion becomes total on February 15, 1971. The new coins caused a certain initial confusion: some London bus conductors refused to take them, taxi drivers grumbled at the nuisance and shoppers everywhere eyed their change suspiciously. For Americans, at least, the new system will end a rare period of relatively easy conversion: with the pound now pegged at $2.40, the old English penny for the first time equals an American penny...