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Outside the Hotel Metropole in the Rue Paul Bert people were quieter as they studied the news from Korea on the Agence de Presse bulletin board. Little Vietnamese men stood wooden-faced in their sharp suits and pearl grey fedoras, their Parker 51s and antimagnetic, shockproof Swiss wrist watches. They were observing the West's humbling with a terrified, frozen-faced satisfaction; their Western watches are the fancy kind which tell the days of the month, the phases of the moon. As everybody in Hanoi knows, the next full moon occurs...
...could have bumped him off." (Later, they were released when they explained they were just saying how easy it would be to outsmart the Secret Service.) While the President relaxed in his steam-heated box during the game (see SPORT), a special patrol of Air Force F-51s kept watch overhead, once zipped past a hovering light plane to warn it away from the big bowl...
...close to the real thing that it's hard to get an idea of what's going on in the war. About all we can gather here is that our F-51s are flying day and night loaded with rockets, bombs and machine gun bullets. I've been working 15 to 18 hours a day maintaining these airplanes, and when I get a chance to read TIME I feel a little more like a general running this show than a mechanic with a socket wrench in my hand...
...about 15 minutes. The FSI, with its longer range, could make the Japan-to-Korea hop and still have enough fuel to stay over the target for about 45 minutes before returning to its base. But, said one Air Force officer grimly: "If one Russian jet appears, the F-51s are going to go back home...
...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...