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Teaching recruits a multitude of martial skills through TV gets into high gear this year, following a two-year study by the Army, which first began experimenting with the tube in 1952. In coming months, Fort Ord will expand its closed-circuit television network so that 30 of a rookie's 60 hours of classroom work during basic training are likely to consist of televised instruction By mid-1968, eleven basic-training installations will muster a total of 60 TV-training channels...
Simple Ingenuity. Necessarily, the Islander is ingeniously simple in design. To save the cost and weight of a retraction system, the landing gear is fixed. To save cabin space, there is no aisle; passengers must climb into their seats through three fuselage doors. To offer performance comparable to STOL (short takeoff and landing) planes such as the $85,000 U.S.-made Helio Twin Courier, the Islander has outsized wings that permit takeoffs in a bare 520 ft., landings at 65 m.p.h. All in all, the Islander offers only one frill; though one big engine would theoretically offer reliability enough...
...nearly two weeks they flew some dozen missions, mostly at night over North Viet Nam, until the third plane went down. Mystified by the malfunctions, the Air Force was at a loss to say what was bugging the enormously complicated fighting machine, which carries three tons of electronic gear. After withholding the surviving F-111s from action for a few days, it sent them once again into combat. This time it intends to keep them under radar surveillance at all times so that it will know at least where-if not why-they go down...
...strike. Only 18 of Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from-the-ranks promotion policies, the companies have enough technically savvy managerial help on hand to keep the system going "for years...
...duet, or the band on The Ed Sullivan Show blasts through a crooner's ballad. To compensate, about one-third of the singers on TV practice "lip sync"-mouthing the lyrics to a prerecorded sound track. But this leads to such unnatural sights as lips out of gear or Joey Heatherton dancing frantically and singing sweetly while her chest heaves like a half-miler...