Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexpensive as it is uncomplicated. After a brief visit to the Delta last summer, Berger Shepard, who usually develops mines for the Navy, designed and built in just four days the world's smallest aircraft carrier. Constructed from pipes and a 16-ft. by 16-ft. steel mat (total cost: $300), the helicopter landing pad was fitted atop the foredeck of a 56-ft. Armored Troop Carrier, a standard craft in the Riverine fleet. The device was an immediate success, and in the past year eleven more have been rigged...
Since June 1965, when the giant, eight-engined jets first raided Viet Nam, B-52s have dropped an enormous 670,000 tons (equivalent to 25% of the total dropped by both the U.S.A.A.F. and the R.A.F. on Europe during World War II) in more than 26,000 sorties. Most of their bombs are aimed south of the DMZ, where few if any antiaircraft missiles exist to threaten the lumbering, relatively slow-moving attackers. Some 80 of the Strategic Air Command's older D and E models of the B-52, originally designed to haul nuclear weapons, have been converted...
...racks up 20,000 air miles a month. He drops in on each S.O.M. office, tramps through national parks as a special consultant to the Department of the Interior, returns to California to help plan a Victorian-style convention center for Monterey, meets actual and potential clients everywhere. Such total absorption led to divorce from his first wife, Emily, by whom he had four children. It also precipitated a drinking problem, which Owings conquered in 1964. He is now married to Margaret Wentworth, a skilled craftswoman (mosaics and stitchery...
Everybody (well, nearly everybody) has heard of mad King Ludwig II, the eccentric scion of the Wittelsbachs, who dotted Bavaria's picturesque hilltops with an insanely extravagant clatch of castles, pavilions, hideaways and other architectural follies in the 1870s and 1880s. Was he totally deranged? Not according to Dr. Michael Petzet, 35, the Munich art historian who oversees Bavaria's state-run castle-museums (including Ludwig's). Petzet, pointing out that Ludwig was the patron of Richard Wagner, sees the king as "a creator in his own right, someone who aimed to fulfill what Wagner understood...
Behind the Dip. Last week the market did fall sharply. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 13.60 points on the first day, recording the worst setback since June 5, 1967. For the week, the Dow dropped a total of 25.45 points to wind up at 888.47, way below the cherished "support level" of 900. Brokers claimed that the sell-off was a delayed reaction to bad news concerning the Paris peace talks and the Czechoslovak-Russian confrontation, combined with an anticipated economic slowdown as a result of the 10% tax surcharge. Frederick Stahl, chairman of Standard & Poor's, suggested...