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Rebel Airlift. Last week into Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, winged planeload after planeload of arms and ammunition bound for the Congo from Ghana, Algeria and Egypt. Secrecy hung thick as a cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...
Rodriquez' aliscafi come in two models: the 72-passenger PT 20, which is driven by a 1,350-h.p. Daimler-Benz V12 engine and will make up to 40 knots, and the 140-passenger PT 50. which has two V-12s and does 37 knots. Both were designed by Austrian Engineer Friedrich Lobau, who built his first hydrofoil for Hitler's navy and his second as a prisoner of war in Russia. (The Russian model, he now says...
...schoolchildren. For 135 years. South African schoolboys, like their brothers in England and the empire, have had to learn mathematics twice-first in the manner of the civilized world, which counts on ten fingers and decimalizes accordingly, and then in the English manner, which counts laboriously in 12s...
Chromatic Collection. Nina poked around in the bright jumble on the C. & A. counters and latched on to five natty little numbers-a chromatic collection of feathered "half hats" in mauve, yellow, black and white, and a pert red wool beanie. The whole lot came to ?1 12s. 11 d. ($4.61). The next thing anyone knew, the hats were in her shopping bag and Nina was in the hands of some hard-eyed store detectives who decided that she had failed to go through the capitalistic formality of paying. Naturally, Nina couldn't understand a word...
...Prince Philip (see cut), who will have 192 men under his command (his first). More good news for Philip: he is due to be promoted from lieutenant to lieutenant commander, which will mean an increase of nine shillings ($1.26) a day, bringing his base pay up to ?1 12s ($4.48). His marriage allowance (as the husband of Princess Elizabeth) of 18 shillings sixpence a day ($2.23) will stay the same...