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...innovations, the plane has so far fallen short of expectations. Test models have weighed too much, and have been burdened with excessive "drag," or in-flight friction resistance. Though not altogether satisfied, the Air Force is prepared to live with its version, designated the F-111A and due to become operational next year. The Navy version, the F-111B, is another matter. The Navy fears that the 35-ton F-111B consumes too much fuel and has insufficient range for "loitering" .(patrolling at slow speed to guard ships), suspects that it will prove too heavy and cumbersome for carrier...
Directing his fire west, Whitman found shop-lined Guadalupe Street, the main thoroughfare off campus?known locally as "The Drag"?astir with shoppers and strollers. Paul Sonntag, 18, lifeguard at an Austin pool and grandson of Paul Bolton, longtime friend of Lyndon Johnson and news editor of the Johnsons' Austin television station, was accompanying Claudia Rutt, 18, for a polio shot she needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father...
...Biology Building; to the east, where he nicked a girl sitting at a window in the Business Economics Building; but particularly to the south, where the mall looked like a no man's land strewn with bodies that could not safely be recovered, and to the west, where The Drag was littered with four dead, eleven wounded...
Riding along The Drag, Newsboy Aleck Hernandez was practically catapulted off his bicycle when a bullet slammed into its seat?and his, inflicting a painful wound. Three blocks up The Drag, Basketball Coach Billy Snowden of the Texas School for the Deaf stepped into the doorway of the barbershop where he was having his hair cut and was wounded in the shoulder. Outside the Rae Ann dress shop on The Drag, Iraqi Chemistry Student Abdul Khashab, 26, his fiancée Janet Paulos, 20, whom he was to have married next week, and Student-Store Clerk Lana Phillips, 21, fell wounded...
Since the airline strike began last month, it has developed into a logistical nuisance and an economic drag. Last week it also became a political hot potato. By turning down the agreement worked out for them by their own national leadership under President Johnson's scrutinous eye, 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists put the U.S. Government in an uncomfortable position. As has happened in the past with striking railroaders, the contract defeat left the Government no choice except to act. But in an election year, when politicians of all stripes are exceedingly sensitive about...