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Captain Joseph P. Smith of the U.S. 38th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron gunned his RF-101 Voodoo jet down the base runway at Ramstein, West Germany. His destination, according to a flight plan filed half an hour earlier with French air control, was France's Rhône Valley. His announced purpose: training for NATO defense. At 4:54 p.m., as he was making his second pass at 2,000 ft. over the Rhône town of Pierrelatte, Captain Smith was greeted wingtip to wingtip by an old French Vautour interceptor. He made two more passes over Pierrelatte...
...Conclusion. Korea: after three years, one month and two days of fighting, the Reds signed an armistice reaffirming the 38th Parallel as the boundary dividing North and South Korea; today, despite an uneasy truce line guarded by 50,000 Americans and 550,000 South Korean troops, South Korea is a sovereign, non-Communist nation. Viet Nam: no conclusion is in sight, and Hanoi leaders are described by recent British Special Envoy Harold Davies as "intoxicated with their successes...
...night of Feb. 6. The league-leading Chicago Black Hawks were playing the Toronto Maple Leafs, and all eyes were on Chicago's great Bobby Hull as he picked up the loose puck and rocketed down the rink. Hull had already scored one goal (his 38th in 48 games), and he was taking aim again when-oof!-Bob Baum hit him with a crunching body check. Hull crumpled to the ice with pulled ligaments in his knee. In that instant, the whole National Hockey League season turned topsy-turvy...
...Carolina's Wachovia Bank & Trust. Situated in the South's most highly industrialized state, Wachovia (pronounced Wah-ko-via) is the biggest bank between Phila delphia and Dallas, serves 37 of the nation's 50 major corporations. Though still fairly small by Northern standards -it ranks 38th among all U.S. banks - Wachovia has just passed $1 billion in assets. To symbolize its rising prominence, it will soon move into the Southeast's tallest building, a new, 30-story headquarters in Winston-Salem...
Compared to the issue of the 38th parallel in Korea or the missiles in Cuba, "the distinction between day and night attacks seems a rather foolish place to draw the line," he said...