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...Korean action meekly. Accordingly, he called up 14,787 Air Force and Navy Reservists, mobilized 372 inactive aircraft, hinted that some ground troops might follow, and thus released hundreds of operational war planes for service in Japan and South Korea. Ironically, the Korean crisis thus gave Johnson an unsought dividend by enabling him to activate reserve units-a move he had seriously contemplated to alleviate serious shortages in Viet Nam but had rejected as too risky politically...
...Visual Dividend. Aerodynamicist Cahn admits that he does not have the answer to one objection raised to his paper at the A.I.A.A. meeting: the creation of a sufficiently strong electrical field might require too much power to be economical. But he points out that there would be less drag or air friction on a charged SST, reducing the power necessary to fly it at a given speed and altitude. He suggests that only further tests with larger models and wind tunnels-now being considered by Northrop, Boeing and NASA-can determine if the system is practical...
...since it was organized in 1902 may have to go into debt for the first time. Inco is not worried at the prospect. Rising demand and higher nickel prices produced a profit of $118 million last year on sales of $694,100,000, and Inco's stock and dividend payouts are setting new records, just like the shiny and coveted metal that is responsible...
When Bolivian troops seized and killed Ernesto ("Che") Guevara last October, they got an unexpected dividend...
Louisiana: Moderation's Dividend Louisiana's Governors traditionally alienate their constituents in a single term. But voters were sufficiently pleased by John J. McKeithen's style as a racial moderate to grant him a second straight four-year term-permissible for the first time this century since passage last year of a McKeithen-backed state constitutional amendment allowing a Governor to succeed himself. When results of the Nov. 4 Democratic primary were tallied last week, McKeithen, who once belabored an opponent for courting Negro votes, had buried segregationist Congressman John R. Rarick beneath an avalanche...