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Meanwhile, the Navy brass is more than ever dissatisfied with its own ver sion, the F-111B. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee recently, Admirals Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations, and Thomas Connolly, his deputy for air, maintained that the plane is still too. heavy and thus ineffective for carrier duty. Connolly blurted: "There isn't enough power in all Christendom to make that airplane what we want!" That jolted Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius, who presently seems to prefer the F-111B over any "paper airplane" his admirals might want to add to the naval aviary. Ignatius...
...Javits, consumed so much of the Senate's time and attention that mo tions to deprive OEO of its major func tions were virtually brushed aside. Then a coalition of Republicans and South ern and small-state Democrats buried the Clark-Javits proposal, 54 to 28. Ver mont Republican Winston Prouty tried for a compromise figure of $925 mil lion for one year only, which elicited wider support - but not wide enough...
...where they were spawned. A song like the traditional Weila Waile, which the Clancys turn into a laff riot, comes off in The Dubliners' brawny hands as the grisly epic of infanticide that it actually is. The often sentimentalized Rising of the Moon becomes in the Dubliners' ver sion a powerful, harrowing hymn of revolutionary heroism...
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLEHEADER (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Boston Patriots v. the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo, and the New York Jets v. the Den ver Broncos in Denver...
...heavy for optimum carrier use. The Air Force feels that it can live with the F-lllA's shorter dash range and is happy enough with it to have ordered production of 395 planes. But the Navy is not sure that it will be able to use its ver sion with maximum effectiveness as a carrier aircraft...