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Tchepone has long been a Communist troop-staging center, and every year about this time-the advent of the dry season-Red forces concentrate there. In Washington last week a high U.S. official refused to call the buildup "dramatic." But there seem to be more troops involved this time than before, and other American officials see it as a possible hedge against U.S. escalation of the war in Viet Nam. Should escalation come and Hanoi move openly into the war, the Communist forces at Tchepone could link up with 5,000 neighboring Viet Cong in a drive to seize South...
...less than the ancient DC-3. It can carry from 56 to 90 passengers, depending on the seating arrangement, and can fly at speeds of 560 m.p.h. More important, it can land and take off at nearly any commercial airport now serviced by ordinary piston planes. The advent of the DC-9 and other short-haul jets will bring the jet age within the reach of nearly every run and runway. The new planes will gradually replace the old piston and turboprop jets on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which now account for more than...
...union in 1980. Catholic-Protestant cooperation, the dream of prophetic scholars a decade ago, is becoming so firmly rooted in parish practice that there is neither surprise nor scandal when Roman Catholics join Episcopalians for a service at Cambridge's Christ Church to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent. Liturgy is also bringing the churches together, as Catholics switch to the vernacular and Protestants increasingly
...brings lower hotel bills as well as higher efficiency. Bankers and buyers travel to New York's money and merchandise markets more often, but for shorter lengths of time. The length of occupancies in Manhattan hotels has dropped from 3 clays to 2.2 clays per guest with the advent of the jets. "We go to New York at the drop of a hat," says Vice President Brown Meggs of Hollywood-based Capitol Records. "The jet has made the whole thing much more casual...