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...sped off their home runways at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico on the 5,200-mile flight to Torrejon, Spain, then the 3,100-mile leg to Dezful, Iran, with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various cargo craft headed east with combat equipment...
...members probably was not worth the trouble. He knew who was against what bill and why. He knew who was drunk. He knew who was out of town. He knew who was sleeping with whom. He influenced committee assignments. He influenced legislation. He came to be known as "the 101st Senator." And he indulged in some vast moonlighting schemes that helped him parlay his $19,612-a-year Government salary into a fortune...
...Just Test Me." Before the race, Chief Steward Harlan Fengler had warned drivers that any car spraying oil would be "black-flagged" instantly. "If you don't believe me," he said, "just test me"-and, sure enough, he banished Jim Hurtubise's leaky Novi on the 101st lap. But now, with Jones's Offy laying a coat of slippery oil all around the track, Fengler seemed not to notice. The flagman did: after Eddie Sachs skidded wildly on Lap 188 and smashed into the retaining wall, he grabbed a black flag and started to wave...
...prepared to throw in the 1st and 2nd infantry divisions, the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions, some 12,000 marines and more than 1,000 aircraft. Says a top-ranking admiral of the invasion plans: "We were prepared to execute an operation that would have compared in scope with the largest of World War II." It was that, plus the poised threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation against Russia, that undoubtedly caused Khrushchev to back away from his Cuban adventure...
NIGHT DROP, by S.L.A. Marshall (415 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $6.50). "Slam" Marshall, famed war correspondent for the Detroit News and a retired brigadier general (Army Reserve), here undertakes to tell what happeaed when the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions dropped behind enemy lines in the dead of night on Dday. Most of them got lost. They fought or drowned in swamps that air reconnaissance had failed to reveal. They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes...