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...November. In that fight, he held together a single infantry battalion surrounded by three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars. This time he was the aggressor, leading the largest allied force of the war: five infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, plus a team of combat engineers and a troop of aerial reconnaissance men, all riding the helicopters of the most mobile force warfare has ever known...
Bluffing in Bombay. The next place where Walcott waived a law was Beirut. He aroused the suspicion of the Lebanese counterintelligence, which charged that Walcott had taken aerial photographs of Lebanese military installations and sold them to Israeli agents. Before they could arrest him, Walcott skipped out, leaving behind his plane. A Lebanese military court sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment at hard labor. But by that time Walcott had been in London to recruit two pilots and rent a plane under the pretext that he ran a freight-hauling service for oil companies in the Middle East. Picking...
...list of suppliers, having already won two major prizes: a $1.3 billion Air Force contract to build the giant C-5A transport, the world's largest plane, and a development award likely to grow to another $1 billion for the Army's so-called Advanced Aerial Fire Support System, a combat plane combining a helicopter's lift with half the speed of a jet airliner. Aerospace has long since supplanted munitions and ordnance makers as the Pentagon's principal arsenal of war materiel. In that endeavor, no other company seems able to match Lockheed...
...Alexander Calder who really put movement into art," says W.J.H.G. Sandberg, former director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. The affable American's Circus of 1926 was an adult toy, perhaps, but his wind-and motor-driven mobiles that followed in the '30s became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...
...says Christ-Janer, "but in the feeling toward it. I have no message, belong to no schools or groups." His art invites contemplation, not as naturalistically as the 19th century Japanese master Hokusai, depicting the "floating world" in his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, but with the same aerial delicacy that defies the banalities of time...