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Dates: during 1960-1960
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What Bill Tunner wants is a fleet of swing-tailed jet aircraft that could lift fighting troops or 20 tons of freight nonstop over 4,000 miles. With a new type of big turboprop cargo plane that MATS wants to develop, Tunner says he could haul for 4? to 5? per ton-mile what now costs 23? on the C124 Globemasters. But MATS is in the sniping sights of the civil airlines, which last year got $85 million worth of business from MATS. (The total military business with the airlines last year, including movements of military people under travel orders...
Russian newspapers, whose pages of grey type and grey dogma are relieved only by static photographs of stodgy Politburocrats, last week broke out with a real human-interest story and gave it the works. The story they had to tell, already familiar to U.S. newspaper readers, was the saga of four young Russian navymen who had drifted for 49 days across the Pacific in a 60-ft. landing craft, until rescued 1,200 miles north of Wake Island by the U.S. aircraft carrier Kearsarge. In the Soviet telling, the U.S. came off well...
Morality & Politics. Father Canavan not only brought politicians into the class room; he also took his students out into politics. Last fall he had them round up signatures to get a referendum on the ballot authorizing a reorganization study of Jersey City's commission-type government. When the referendum won, entrenched politicians grumbled that Canavan's students were paid off in good grades...
Since 1957 Heftler has sold 3,976 homes in Florida, plans to sell twice as many in the early 1960s. Along with the Sunset Park project with Centex, Heftler plans to build junior executive-type houses in Carol City, will start a 5,000-home development in Orlando that will have community recreation facilities...
...beginning of Endless Road, Peter Fletcher has already lost a great deal more than a weekend. A onetime athlete, he has lost his physical fitness. He has lost his job as a columnist. He has left his wife Mary, an odd mother-hen type who needed Peter's boozed-up dependence on her as much as he needed booze. The only thing he has not lost is the enduring friendship of Jon Baker, a fellow booze-fighter of yesteryear who has become an apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous...