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...Pilot Ronald H. Conway, 29, who survived the crash, failed three flight tests early in his career, although he later passed his multi-engine and transport-rating tests without a failure...
...Balaguer!" The Caribbean republic was almost paralyzed. Steel shutters banged shut on shops; trees were felled across streets to block public transport. Mobs roamed the hot, narrow sidewalks and streets of Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), taunting cops and soldiers-who responded with tear gas and noise grenades-with the cry: "Boo Boo Balaguer...
...pattern of interlocking directorates as intricate as a piece of Brussels lace, La Générale controls 10% of Belgium's economic life-including one-third of its steel and coal production, three-quarters of its nonferrous metals output, and chunks of its banking, electricity, transport and armaments. With a bare 17% of its investments. La Générale also controls at least half the economy of the Congo and, by cooperating with all of that nation's disputing factions, still manages to prosper...
...half afterward British governments vetoed the idea of a Channel tunnel as a threat to England's island security. But Britain's decision to join the European Common Market brings to an end the historic British policy of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. Last week, as British Transport Minister Ernest Marples flew to Paris to open the first Anglo-French talks on the subject since 1883, the question was no longer whether there ought to be a direct cross-Channel link, but rather whether the link should be a tunnel or a bridge...
Neither the British nor French government is as yet committed to either idea. They agreed last week to set up an intergovernmental committee to study the alternatives. As never before, economic realities now lend powerful support to demands for a Channel link. Cross-Channel transport of cars, which had been expected to rise by 30% in the past three years, actually rose 54%; where there were 5,750,000 cross-Channel passengers in 1957, current estimates are that there will be 11,400,000 in 1965. To handle this mounting load by present means, Britain alone would have to spend...