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...British-French supersonic Concorde 001 took its first trip last week, but the journey was only a matter of a mile at the Sud Aviation plant at Toulouse, France. With front wheels jacked up so that the 38-ft. tail structure could slip through the hangar doors, the graceful goose was towed to a suitable display area where this week some 800 airline officials and members of the press will get a look at the craft. If all goes according to plan, the 191-ft. prototype will take off on its maiden flight...
Only the matches of Fritz Hobbs and Fernando Gonzalez were cliffhangers. After jumping to a two game lead, Hobbs grew erratic and let the match slip to a 2-2 tie. But he blazed back in the fifth game to win, 15-7. Gonzalez, with the score tied 13-13 in the fifth game, smashed two deep court drives by his opponent, completing the sweep...
...pleased by the success of his discharge of 147 teen-age inmates in September (only nine have since had difficulty with the law) that he plans to make wholesale opening of prisons a Georgia yuletime tradition. "We realize," he said, "that in releasing this many, some will slip up. But most of all we are concerned with those who will not." This is his way, Maddox added, of saying "Merry Christmas to these people and their families...
Confusion at Customs. To shopkeepers and tourists, the new morality means a mess at customs. Under the new rules, which require customs-slip proof that the purchase has been "exported," a buyer can get his discount fairly simply if he has his purchase shipped directly home. But if he wants to take the goods with him, he may have to pay the full price, later haggle with customs agents for a receipt to send back to the store, which, he hopes, will then forward the amount of the discount. On the other hand, a shopkeeper can risk giving the discount...
...University students staged a burning of Springer publications. A group of liberal writers declared they will never again write for a Springer paper and urged their publishers to withhold advertising from Springer publications. When Springer went to give a speech at the Hamburg Overseas Club recently, he had to slip in a side door while five squads of riot police protected him from angry pickets, whose banners declared: "Never before in any land at any time has so much power and so little wisdom been in one pair of hands." In the next few weeks, a band of vociferous Berlin...