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South Viet Nam's presidential election campaign formally opens this week, and most of the eleven candidates are taking to the air with prerecorded campaign speeches. At week's end the candidates will collect at Quang Tri, less than 20 miles from the Demilitarized Zone, to begin a series of public meetings that will end in Saigon Sept. 1, two days before the voting. There will be an amount of togetherness unheard of in most political campaigns. The South Vietnamese have planned the campaign so that all candidates will have the opportunity to speak on the same...
...National Airlines, during which time he rose from a $50-a-month plane washer and apprentice mechanic to vice president for operations, engineering and maintenance. At Frontier, he has got rid of most of its piston-engine planes in favor of 21 propjet Convair 580s and five Boeing tri-jet 727s. "We are lean and hungry," says Dymond, "but we have a 'go' attitude. That made National Airlines and it is making Frontier...
...years ago, Russia welcomed Cuba's subversive efforts. No longer. Well aware that Castro's guerrilla wars are getting nowhere, that they are doing more harm than good to Communism's image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation...
Among the variety of new Russian jet liners they saw on display at Le Bourget, U.S. experts were most impressed by the potential of the YAK-40, a 23-passenger, tri-jet transport designed by Aeronautical Engineer Sergei Yakovlev, 27, son of famed Soviet Aircraft Designer Alexsandr Sergeevich Yakovlev, for whom earlier YAK planes were named. What he had in mind, said Yakovlev, was a replacement for the famous old DC-3. Yakovlev's workhorse jet has thick, high-lift wings, big flaps, a relatively slow cruising speed of 450 m.p.h. and fat, soft tires-enabling it to land...
...think you know much more than I do about what the Vietnamese call the "ban cung hoa de tri" (impoverish [the1