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...spread, the officials were more jubilant than embarrassed. Their hit record is drawing 5,000 callers a day-so heavy a load that two of their five answering machines burned out and had to be repaired. The payoff: prompted by the message, 70 VD victims daily are telephoning for help. Says one official: "Every case cured helps us to break the chain of infection. We could have spent thousands on propaganda and never begun to get such results...
...Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.'s F-27 Friendship, the company's jet-age answer to the problem of replacing the hundreds of aging DC-35 still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task in pressurized, air-conditioned comfort. Says Fairchild President Richard S. Boutelle: "Every DC-3 in the air is fair game for us, and we want to replace them...
...average pupils would have a lighter work load, with many vocational courses and the slow group would study remedial reading, shop courses, and actual work experience...
...Addressing the Arizona State Conference of Social Welfare last week, Denver's Juvenile Court Judge Philip B. Gilliam warned that 20 million youngsters will be moving into the delinquency-age field by 1968. Asked Gilliam: "Can you handle this load with your present facilities for welfare, recreation, police and education? . . . We don't understand juvenile delinquency. We've been told there is no such thing as a bad boy. Well, we're wrong. Most juvenile delinquents are meaner than hell...
Automatic Cameras. To spur recession-minded buyers, Bell & Howell brought out nine new camera products months ahead of schedule. Items: the 8-mm. Auto Load, a home movie projector that automatically threads the film; four cheaper ($99.95 to $159.95) versions of two previous "electric eye" 8-mm. movie cameras, which automatically adjust the lens to the right light...