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...starred debut cast doubts on what is, on paper, an impressive fighting machine. The plane can fly faster and farther than any earlier U.S. fighter-bomber and lift twice the bomb load (12,500 Ibs.). Its great strategic importance in Viet Nam was to be that its new inertial guidance and radar targeting system enables it to bomb in foul weather or fair, either by night or by day. Its arrival in force would thus mean that the U.S. could keep up its aerial bombardment of the North despite monsoon rains or heavy cloud cover...
...General's slot, and he had the same problem Marshall has had. "I disqualified myself in any case with which I had dealt as Solicitor General," says retired Justice Stanley Forman Reed, "and Justice Marshall's action is perfectly in keeping with practice." But because the case load is now larger than ever before, Marshall has most likely set a court record. His total so far is 40 disqualifications out of the 54 cases decided after argument...
...Despite the current abstentions, however, he does not lack for work. He has written two of the 14 decisions in which he has taken part. And he has been handling an extra number of the "petitions that ask the court to hear a case. So great is his work load, in fact, that he is in his office most Saturdays, and even some Sundays...
...Burbank, Calif., company has been searching for ways to get back into the passenger plane business and balance its space and military contracts with airline orders. Supersonic jets were one way, but Lockheed lost the SST contract to Boeing. Air buses-giant planes carrying double today's passenger load at subsonic speeds-were another way, and here Lockheed has at least been successful. In a joint announcement last week, TWA, Eastern Air Lines and a British firm called Air Holdings, Ltd., disclosed that they will purchase 144 of Lockheed's 256-passenger L-1011 air buses-50 each...
Chicago to Siberia. For all the new jets, many of Wien Alaska's 81 pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...