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...time no prototypes will be built, but each contestant will produce more detailed studies to enable the FAA and the airlines to make a final choice. Though the extension may delay the date when an American SST enters commercial service to 1973, two years later than the already abuilding Anglo-French Concorde, most U.S. aviation experts feel that the additional study will help avoid costly mistakes...
...similar border talks with North Viet Nam-an interesting endeavor, in view of the fact that Cambodia has no border with North Viet Nam, only South Viet Nam. Apparently rebuffed by a mystified Ho Chi Minh, Sihanouk protested that Hanoi's Reds had been "as vague as the Anglo-Saxons." But that did not necessarily make him any friendlier toward the South Vietnamese delegates...
Died. Nicholas Joy, 80, London-born character actor whose hair turned grey at 22, giving him a half-century to play an all-purpose, Anglo-American Blimp-the lean, mean subspecies-in more than 100 plays and films, notably The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn's papa), The Iceman Cometh (the Boer War bore), sitting in so many stage wing chairs puffing Corona Coronas that he developed phlebitis, occupational ailment of English clubmen; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
Overheated Rhetoric. While the anti-crime bills were being considered by the legislature, they got strong support from law-enforcement agencies, but many lawyers were loud in their disapproval. Said the State Bar Association in denouncing the stop-and-frisk proposal: "Nowhere in the history of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence have we so closely approached a police state." When Rockefeller signed the bills anyway, another organization, made up largely of lawyers and called the Emergency Committee for Public Safety, attacked the new laws as "the worst police state measures ever enacted in the history of our nation-ominously dangerous enactments threatening...
Died. General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck/93, Germany's East African commander in World War I, a will-o'-the-wisp tactician whose tiny guerrilla force (300 Germans, 11,000 natives) haunted, taunted, eluded and periodically decimated a combined Anglo-Belgian-Portuguese force of 300,000 for four years, all the while scrupulously obeying Junkerdom's rules of war (he freed prisoners who promised not to fight again, refused to fire on enemy officers at close range), finally laid down his arms 14 leisurely days after the 1918 armistice, the only undefeated German general in that...