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...ABDUCTORS by Stuart Cloete. 429 pages. Trident Press...
Minister of Aviation Fred Mulley announced in the House of Commons that instead of its Boeings, BEA must buy made-in-Britain aircraft, with a choice between the Hawker-Siddeley Trident III, the Vickers VC-10 and the BAC-One-Eleven. The equivalent number of British airplanes would cost BEA about $56 million more than the Boeings, but, said Mulley, the government itself would make up the difference. Hearing the news, BEA Chairman Sir Anthony Milward, who holds his job only at the pleasure of the government, bleakly announced that the company's initials should no longer stand...
...flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three-jet Trident is also having troubles, though less serious...
...ADVENTURERS by Harold Robbins, 781 pages, Trident...
DENNY ZEITLIN is both a pianist and an M.D. in psychiatric training who likes to analyze his music ("I attempted to build layer upon layer of tension to generate an organic shape"). In Live at the Trident (Columbia), he plays standards and some pieces of his own in a wide variety of moods and forms. Although he pays allegiance to Ornette Coleman as the most significant jazzman of the decade, Zeitlin himself plays it much safer and at times seems to be simply entertaining at the cocktail hour...