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Each of its three turrets weighs as much as a destroyer. One salvo from its nine 16-in. guns carries nearly half the destructive power of a B-52 bomb load. Last week the world's only active battleship, the 59,300-ton U.S.S. New Jersey, with Captain Joseph Edward Snyder Jr. in command, joined a Seventh Fleet Task Force off the South Vietnamese coast. In its first action -which incidentally earned her crew combat pay for all of September - the New Jersey silenced four anti-aircraft positions just above the DMZ and twelve miles inland. It also pounded...
...decision. But the economics of its swing-wing B-2707 has forced the Seattle company to put practicality over pride. Although wind-tunnel tests showed that the movable wing could perform well aerodynamically, it developed an insuperable weight problem. Carrying the 313-passenger payload envisioned for it, the 375-ton swing-wing SST would have had about one-half of its planned range of 4,600 miles-meaning that it would have run out of fuel over the Atlantic on a flight from New York to Paris...
...earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula, mining operations in Peru, Australia and Canada, and a fleet of nine super-size ore and oil carriers, to which three new 128,000-ton ships will soon be added...
...anti-Dubček conservative, rounded up 40 security agents to run errands for the Soviets, an underground station broadcast all of their license-plate numbers. A truck driver who recognized one plate bore down on the car and rammed it against a brick wall with his two-ton trailer...
World prices of sisal are expected to continue their decline and possibly level off by 1970 at about $150 a ton. Meanwhile, Tanzania hopes to develop new uses for its threatened crop. To that end, a consortium of Canadian and European banks has invested some $28 million in a mill to turn sisal into paper pulp. In neighboring Kenya, the world's fourth largest sisal producer, experiments aimed at producing fodder and fertilizer from sisal fibers are under way. Other leading sisal producers, including Brazil and Haiti, have agreed to pool their resources to promote their produce against...