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Some beginning. Last year Flying Tiger increased its revenues by 53% to $86 million, while multiplying its profits nearly threefold to $12.1 million. What makes the record all the more impressive is the fact that the airline was founded in 1945 on an investment of $180,000 and a rickety fleet of eight Budd Conestogas. Briefly called the National Skyway Freight Corp., it took its subsequent name-and many of its top personnel-from the legendary Flying Tigers, volunteer American pilots who flew for China early in World War II. Disbanded as a unit 25 years ago last week, most...
Another Pause? The Senators who signed apparently had a threefold purpose. First, they wanted to let their constituents know that they were not giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Second, they wanted Hanoi to be aware that despite their own views, the great majority of the American people back the war; a Louis Harris poll, in fact, showed that no less than 72% of the public support Johnson on the war and that 59% want to intensify it. Third, the Senators were anxious to shore up their own political flanks. In Idaho, Church is worried that he may confront...
Staunch Ally. Though it is just now sending troops to Viet Nam, Thailand is already in position as a staunch ally. It now harbors 35,000 U.S. servicemen-25,000 from the Air Force, the rest mainly Army engineers and logistics experts. The total represents a threefold increase in the past year. Eleven U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons are stationed in Thailand-at Takhli, Korat, Udorn and Ubon-from which they fly about 75% of all the bombing raids on North Viet Nam. Last year
...commitments across the Pacific. Only ten months after a resounding election victory, President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines flew to Washington for a state visit that meant far more to him, and his hosts, than the usual red-carpeted round of pleasantries. For Marcos, it represented a threefold opportunity - to renew a long-standing bond of friendship with the U.S., to make a case for increased U.S. aid to bail out his stagnating econ omy, and to impress on Americans some home truths about the realities of power in Asia. With willing assistance from Washington, Marcos made the most...
...some 1,657,300 men in the Class of '66 as they face their No. 1 nemesis: Conscription '66. Not since Korea's bleakest days has the draft loomed quite so doomful in the eyes of high school and college graduates. Induction quotas are up threefold over last year; 319,887 men have been called in the past eleven months, another 150,000 are expected to go in the next year. The pool of single 26-, 25-and 24-year-olds is fast being depleted. Local draft boards are digging deeper into their files, searching...