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...guests, Nasser put on a pointed display of his 4th Armored Division-four serried ranks of Russian tanks, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers and personnel carriers 75 abreast, over which flew a flight of 15 Ilyushin jet bombers and ten MIGs. "You see, we still do have an army," said one Egyptian major. But after 17 hours of talk, including a private talk between Nasser and Saud that lasted until 3 one morning, the conference dissolved in a mist of platitudes...
...Beirut's plush American quarter the unshaven man in the dirty grey sweater attracted no attention. Ignored by the gossiping Lebanese police on the corner, he waited patiently until a grey Opel sedan got almost abreast of him in the narrow street. Then, calmly setting his shopping bag on the sidewalk, he pulled out a Beretta submachine gun and opened fire. Inside the car 34-year-old Colonel Ghassan Jedid Defense Commissar of Syria's outlawed Socialist Nationalist Party and onetime commandant of the Syrian military academy, slumped over dead...
...famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed the Chain Bridge to the west bank of the Danube...
...sight of them was. Samples: tranquilizer pills transformed a jabbering schizophrenic into a calmly rational man; the gelatinous flutter of an exposed human heart was deliberately stopped by injection to permit a surgeon to repair the heart while a machine pumped the patient's blood. To keep spectators abreast of scientific strides, CBS now plans a series of weekly half-hour shows...
...pointed out that "Operation Powerhouse" took place during "the change in seasons when the North American continent experiences its worst weather ... On the day operations were most intense, there were three major weather fronts across the North American continent. The Civil Aeronautics Administration was hard pressed to keep abreast of all SAC and civilian air traffic." Despite such difficulties, tough, exacting General Curtis LeMay's SAC put on a near-perfect display of massive, smooth-functioning air power: every plane took off on schedule, every aerial refueling (the B-47s used some 16 million gallons of fuel during...