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...Khanh announced that the 13 officers and seven civilians behind September's abortive "coupette" would soon go on trial, facing possible death sentences. Then, at a news conference, Khanh proclaimed the power of the South Vietnamese Air Force, which he said could deliver "one, two or three-ton bombs into North Viet Nam or even southern China...
...slipped into second place behind the expanding operations of the U.S.'s Daniel K. Ludwig. More and more oil companies, instead of chartering, are buying their own tankers. As a result, cutthroat competition is common among charter operators such as Niarchos: charter rates for a 42,000-ton tanker have dropped from $4 per deadweight ton in 1956 to $1.90 today...
...Niarchos wants out, he is not selling cheap. The asking price for the fleet and all its contracts is about $260 million, or $100 per deadweight ton. Brokers complain that the price is outrageous, since brand-new ships can be built in Japan for that much or less and at least 15 of the Niarchos ships are considered out of date. Not included in the offer are the prospering Niarchos shipyards near Piraeus or any of his other worldwide investments in oil refineries and aluminum...
...more modern than its look; the turboprop plane is a jungle fighter, a volunteer for the brush-fire wars of today's world. It can strafe a target at 50 m.p.h., yet escape from danger at eight times that speed. It can airlift a ton of cargo or a fully armed squad of paratroopers, take off from a bumpy jungle airfield less than 500 ft. long, land on a strip only 100 ft. in length. For all its old-fashioned air, though, from its twin-boom fuselage to its lofty, boxlike tail, the Charger is as radically...
These drove his sense of alienation to the edge of madness: "What flowed from my pen at that point-an octopus with eyes of flame, a twenty-ton crustacean, a giant spider that talked-was I myself, a child monster." He also gradually became aware that he was very ugly, "a toad," walleyed, short, "not quite a dwarf...