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...increased flights by some 6% to meet added business spurred by lower fares, the growth in general aviation has been far more spectacular (see chart, page 20). The newcomers range from business executives flying to conferences aboard $3 million corporate jets, to affluent ranchers surveying their lands, to various weekend wanderers seeking relaxation or adventure. Last week there naturally rose urgent demands for greater separation of the commercial air giants and the pygmies, higher proficiency requirements for private pilots entering major airports and a speed-up in the use of new electronic systems to warn pilots automatically when they...
...phenomenal growth in general aviation in the U.S. has continued unabated for a decade. The category embraces everything from a $5,000 secondhand Piper Cub used for weekend joyrides to a $6.5 million, 18-seat Grumman Gulfstream executive jet crammed with the latest airborne electronics. In between are the twins, turboprops and smaller jets operated by some 2,200 air-taxi operators and 200 commuter airlines. This year alone, companies such as Cessna, Beech and Piper will deliver 18,000 aircraft worth $1.8 billion to customers around the country...
Opponents of Long's measure were hastily trying over last weekend to make some basic changes. Ted Kennedy, for one, was seeking allies to keep the personal exemption at $750, a step that he figures will save $12 billion a year in federal revenues. That amount would then be redistributed to middle-and low-income taxpayers. The full Senate is expected to vote on the bill this week, and the House will have its turn next week. Despite his threats, Carter is not expected to veto the measure if some acceptable compromises are made. The public is calling...
Nobody was more relieved than Jimmy Carter and his chief diplomatic aides, for they were preparing to welcome Gromyko to Washington over the weekend for what might prove to be an important new phase of the Carter Administration's 18-month preoccupation with SALT II negotiations. Gromyko is by now a matchless expert in the technicalities of strategic arms, and there is no real replacement for him on the Soviet side. "If his illness had been any worse," said one vastly relieved U.S. diplomat, "we could have kissed SALT goodbye for another six months...
...feeding of sugar water. Even if fortified with vitamins and minerals and supplemented with predigested protein, the sugar solution provides only 500 to 600 calories a day, and not enough nutrients to meet the body's needs. Dr. Dudrick came face to face with the nutrition problem one weekend in 1961 when, as a young surgical intern in Philadelphia, he helped perform successful operations on three patients only to have them die from what the chief surgeon diagnosed as malnutrition. Recalls Dudrick: "He told me, 'Nothing we can do with knives can overcome that...