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Planemakers' sales and profits plunged downward at a speed faster than light. Republic Aviation, which stubbornly clung to the airplane and currently relies on its hot F-IO5 fighter-bomber for 98% of its business, has seen its sales dip from $547 million in 1955 to $215 million last year. The three big companies that winged into the commercial jet market were also hard hit: Boeing, Douglas and Convair spent some $700 million to develop their big jets, and only Boeing is in sight of the break-even point...
Harvard's ultra-chaotic football season continued its latest downward swing into the depths of despair and frustration yesterday with the news that quarterback Ted Halaby will be sidelined for the next two weeks...
...cameras to have a close peep at a freshly assembled collection of pages from the Times, showing ads full of brassieres and what Paar called "crotch shots" of girdles and panties running side by side with reports on the world's most crucial news. Moving onward and downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York Journal-American for its "warmongering," its sex mania, and its "editorials by Tarzan: Me good American, you good American . . ." Peeling clip after clip from a stack of papers, he cited the A.P.'s mistaken report of Dag Hammarskjold...
...Malaya. Though temporarily cowed, a few Communists still try to burrow their way into trade unions and political parties, waiting their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern Scholar Willard Hanna, "that one stumble might lead to disaster. The miracle...
...only external evidence of an underground fortress is an entrance portal, the ground-level doors over three Titan I silos, and silos containing 100-ft.-long radio antennas that rise along with the missiles and guide them on their way. At the concreted entrance tower, 13 steps spiral downward to a portal and a blastproof revolving door. Behind the door, 69 steps drop underground to a cool, yellow-painted steel tunnel 1,687 ft. long and lined with cables, pipes and tanks for water, diesel fuel and liquid oxygen...