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...World War II, a fighter pilot was considered past his prime at 25, his reflexes and aggressiveness dangerously eroded. Even in Korea, the younger jet jockeys sneered over their bourbon at the middle-aged reserve officers who joined in dogfights with Red Chinese MIGs over the 38th parallel. Yet America's top MIG killer in the swirling scuffles over North Viet Nam these days is a greying, 44-year-old Air Force colonel who won his first aerial victories a generation ago against German Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs...
Just as tough is Specialist Four Roderick Johns, 22, a former airline flight checker and draftee from Washington, D.C., who has survived 69 patrols as a dog handler with the 38th Infantry Scout Dog Patrol. Communist posters offer big rewards for every handler captured dead or alive, and fully half of the 18 men who arrived in Viet Nam with Johns last July have been killed or wounded. His only wound came from a dog-not his own-that flipped under pressure and nearly tore off Johns's right hand. His own dog, a German shepherd named Kentucky, patrolling...
...noted for modesty, his humility is practically treasonous. "I'm just lucky enough to have inherited a team that was already great," says Hannum, whose 76ers are currently the winningest team in the history of pro basketball. Last week they beat the Baltimore Bullets 121-115 for their 38th victory in 42 games. That boosted their Eastern Division lead to eight full games over the perennial world-champion Boston Celtics, whose own record of 28 wins and ten losses is nothing to sneer...
CHARLES E. GOODELL Congressman 38th District, New York Washington...
...exactitude of Campbell's Soup cans. The Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming Widow your own Gilt Skeleton...