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Show BRIEFS . . . ByBaukhage For weeks Washington reporters tried to find out the total airplane production of the United States. But somehow the figures were not available avail-able in national defense offices. It was not that the information was considered exactly confidential, but like much of the defense news, assembling as-sembling the details involved the work of different government agen cies, different divisions of the same agency. Officials fearing to embarrass embar-rass another division or department, have become close-mouthed. But one reporter did get the plane figures. He got them at a cocktail parry, along with a detailed breakdown. break-down. He published the totals but withheld the details for fear of embarrassing his source. |