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...especially British, companies have had their troubles, too, but are still pushing ahead with commercial planemaking. They have the advantage over U.S. firms of smaller overhead, lower wages and heavy government subsidies for strictly commercial planemaking. The French Caravelle and to a lesser degree the British Comet and Viscount and the Dutch F-27 Friendship have made some inroads into what used to be almost an exclusively American market. There may be more important inroads soon. Pan American is quietly negotiating with Britain's Hawker Siddeley to buy at least 40 DH-125 jets, which it intends...
Died. Herbert Louis Samuel, 92, British statesman and philosopher. First Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, Liverpool, a lifelong Liberal who served his country in posts ranging from Home Secretary to Postmaster General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled...
Irritating as it might be, it was an idea with some force. So sympathetic a transatlantic figure as Britain's Viscount Hailsham, speaking in Manhattan fortnight ago, gently warned President Kennedy not to think that he is the "commander in chief of the forces of the free world...
...midafternoon in Ulus Square, in the heart of Ankara, shoppers, office workers and bystanders jammed the streets. At the railroad station near by, a retired Turkish air force general heard a noise and looked up. The Middle East Airlines jet-prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds...
...people in the two planes-14, including five American passengers, aboard the Viscount and a crew of three on the Dakota-were killed...