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September 15: Ford plays golf with Melvin Laird, former Republican congressman Jack Westland, and his friend Darius "Deke" Keatch, president of Trucker Oil Trade, Inc. He attends church. Later he greets the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...agreement to sell Saudi Arabia 38 Mirage IIIE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and assorted other military items. In return, the Saudis have agreed to provide France with about $50 billion worth of oil over the next 20 years. Britain last week was completing delivery of twelve Westland Mark I commando-carrying helicopters to Egypt, and British salesmen are now trying to interest Saudi Arabia in some Scorpion light tanks...
Among those watching the cross-channel undertaking most closely are Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Buffalo-based Bell Aerosystems Co. Both companies manufacture their own ACV versions, also serve as British Hovercraft licensees. The fledgling industry's leader, British Hovercraft, was formed in 1966 by Westland Aircraft Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., and the government-run National Research and Development Corp., which together have pumped $48 million into the craft's development...
...house coded for 23 characteristics, including location, style, extra baths, price, and, on request, even the cost of adjacent property. Thus, when Mr. and Mrs. John Grima recently decided that what with their Great Dane, they had too much house and too little yard in their suburban residence in Westland, they consulted a broker subscribing to Realtron. Their specific requirements were checked off and fed into the computer; within five seconds, Realtron came back over the broker's Touch-Tone telephone with a list of houses answering their description (where none are available, the computer moves on to list...
Next May, the companies will begin summer trips across the English Channel with two leased 38-passenger craft, built by Britain's Westland Aircraft. The vessels will cruise at up to 50 knots, make the Ramsgate-to-Calais voyage in 30 minutes (v. 1½ hours for conventional ships). In 1968, the Swedish firms will get even bigger and faster amphibians: 500-passenger craft that will cross the channel in 18 minutes at cruising speeds of 70 knots, can operate year-round even in rough waves...