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This is the second article in a two-part series by William W. Hodes '66 on life in Communist Chins. Mr. Hodes and his family spent the years between 1955 and 1960 in Peking, the capital of Chins. the city. Flat-top peddi-cabs also transport everything from cabbages to cast iron to live and squawking chickens. Nursery schools even have "school buses," converted peddi-cabs which are actually just big boxes on wheels with a driver peddling away in front...
Williams said the U.S., "neither condones nor approves" of the use of white mercenaries in the Congo, but he asserted that the Congolese government "has every legal right" to employ them. He said U.S. military personnel in the Congo consist of some 200 men, mostly air transport crews, and that "we have absolutely no intention to engage U.S. forces in combat operations...
...greying, 16-year Army veteran from St. Petersburg, Fla., where his wife and five children live. Twelve years ago, as a 1st sergeant in a tank battalion, Keys decided to move from turret to cockpit, enrolled in the Army's aviation school. Today he flies a lumbering Caribou transport out of Vungtau on the South China Sea, 40 miles southeast of Saigon...
Plum for Boeing. United Air Lines, the largest U.S. line, announced the biggest individual order in air transport history: $750 million worth of jet planes and spare parts. Most of the 144-plane plum went to Seattle's Boeing Co., which thus not only reinforced its position as the world's largest maker of commercial planes (recently wrested from Los Angeles' Douglas Aircraft), but also gained dramatically in its race to catch up with Douglas and British Aircraft Corp. in sales of short-range jets. United will acquire 130 Boeing planes in all: 70 twin-jet short...
...course without running aground on a few shoals. It has had six failures among its acquired companies, blames them on its overeagerness to use up a $42 million tax-loss carry-over from its old textile operations. The worst failure was that of the S.S. Leilani, a converted troop transport that Textron bought in 1956. Before Textron finally scuttled her, she lost $6,000,000 cruising to Hawaii. Sailor Thompson and Textron President G. William Miller, 40, both keep a model of the Leilani in their desks. Whenever any Textron executive suggests acquisitions that sound farfetched, they quickly pull...