AVIATION: Area of Agreement

General Motors Corp., long harassed by controversy over its Allison aircraft engine, last week distributed a booklet packaged in heavy cellophane, and titled: Airplane Power (with special reference to engines and altitudes). With the booklet was a note from G.M.'s genial Customer Research Director Henry Weaver: "After a long series of controversial sessions with our different engineering groups, aviation experts and military censors, we finally decided ... to omit everything on which the experts are not in full and complete agreement. The enclosed is the result. .. ."

The enclosed booklet consisted of a handsome cover picturing four Allison-powered planes (Lightning,...

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