Word: tigershark
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India, which has relied on the Soviet Union for most of its weapons, is trying to diversify its arms sources. It has entered into talks with the Northrop Corp. about being the first overseas customer for the F-5G Tigershark fighter plane and with another American company regarding the possible purchase of up to $1 billion worth of artillery and ammunition. But the purpose of Gandhi's trip was primarily to promote a greater understanding of each country's aims, which, Reagan noted, will bring "a rediscovery of how important we are to one another...
Airplane manufacturers fared only slightly better. Lockheed Corp. managed to increase its profits 51% to $51.8 million, but that was partly because of money it had saved by discontinuing the L-1011 jetliner program. Northrop Corp. lost $1.6 million because of start-up costs for its new F-5G Tigershark jet fighter...
Highlight of the captain's combats is the one with the tigershark, photographed with a man-eater which appears to be dead. But the spirit of engaging fakery animating Killers of the Sea has a happier embodiment in the octopus sequence. This time ''the man of steel" rescues his buddy, a diver, bogged down by a devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness...