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...Rusk said, "We didn't jump up and down like schoolboys whose team had scored a touchdown. The episode was a little naive." As for General Maxwell Taylor, he was disgusted with Actor Andrew Duggan, who took his role. Huffed the general: "He would never have made the 101st Airborne...
...Donald Coggan, 64, named by the Queen last week as the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury, may be the last primate chosen by this method. He will take over from A. Michael Ramsey, who will retire in November at the age of 70, a church that is struggling to gain greater independence from the state* and, above all, to survive despite the enormous apathy among its members...
...young Vietnamese pilot skillfully eased the helicopter down into what the U.S. 101st Airborne Division used to call Firebase Veghel, named after a Dutch town into which units of the division jumped during the second World War. It is now called Ta Lung, and its guns form part of the forward defense perimeter of Hué. Fixed enemy positions are less than five miles to the west. Considering its front-line position, Ta Lung seemed remarkably bucolic...
...Kennedy landed on her back. Her acrobatics caused boot-top fractures of two bones in her right leg, which were set by doctors at the lodge infirmary. Hardly worth mentioning, however, compared to the snap, crackle and pop of Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel, who, by rough count, broke his 101st, 102nd, 103rd and 104th bones at the Michigan State Fairgrounds last week. The latest fracture of his collarbone and ribs will not, of course, deter Knievel from his scheduled motorcycle leap this week in Sacramento, Calif., where he aims to soar over a pit filled with cars, mountain lions...
...Saturday's march. The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III, "a limited incursion into the country of Congress," in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans, wearing fatigues with the shoulder patches of the 1st Air Cav, the 101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards and medals: Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts. Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs. They carried squirt guns, cap pistols, toy rifles made by Mattel...