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...lights were on all night in the office of Robert Strange McNamara. Unshaven but wearing a fresh blue shirt and dark blue suit, the Secretary of Defense strode into the Pentagon's first-floor conference room to brief newsmen at 9:30 a.m. Flanked by maps , and aerial photos and flourishing a brown wooden pointer, he rattled off with electronic efficiency the detailed results of the raids and the reasons for them...
...convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo-trellised canopies rigged over some jungle roads to inhibit aerial observation." What it boils down to, warned the Defense Secretary, is that the Reds are shifting "from a small-arms guerrilla action against South Viet Nam to a quasi-conventional military action...
...mosquitoes in the grey-green skies over France during World War I, a handful of meticulously reconstructed biplanes and triplanes give this ambitious battle drama its only real sting. Goggled pilots, scarves tucked into their leather daredevil jackets, scramble aloft to trigger a full-throttle facsimile of the epic aerial combats of 1918. Of course, as members of an enemy German squadron, the men in their flying machines are shown to be less than magnificent...
Sardines & Church Steeples. The aerial patrol symbolizes the proliferating use of helicopters (see following color pages). The machines remain costly to buy (minimum: $23,750) and tricky to fly, but coptermakers at last have overcome most of the bugs that for 25 years gave their industry more promise than progress. Rotor craft have not only changed the whole nature of the Viet Nam war but now stand on the threshold of a huge market at home...
...month Hughes Tool will begin delivering its turbine-powered Army OH-6A light observation helicopter, which does away with the heavy knuckles. Even more sophisticated models are on the way. Bell's armor-plated AH-1G next year will give the Army its first helicopter designed as an aerial artillery platform. Hughes, aiming at a future 110-passenger intercity transport, built its experimental XV-9A hot-cycle model, which is powered by hot gases shooting out of rotor-tip vents. Beyond that come bizarre crossbreeds intended to graft the convenience of helicopters to the greater speed and durability...