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...radioed words of a Soviet fighter pilot buzzing a Western transport plane in the skies near Berlin. Failing to get a reply from his Russian ground commander, the pilot did not fire. But the message, monitored by U.S. authorities, was evidence of dangerous new tension in Berlin's aerial war of nerves...
Last month's aerial assassination attempt on Diem found Madame Nhu in the presidential palace with three of her four children (two girls 16 and 2, two boys 13 and 9). She fell two stories through a hole in the floor, was painfully cut and bruised, still moves with difficulty. The attack has made her even less tolerant of Diem's opponents. She says: "We will track down, neutralize and extirpate all these scabby sheep...
...recent months, a whole new contingent has entered the field. Joe Palooka, showing no effects of his 31 years as world heavyweight champion, recently outwitted the Reds to rescue a U.S. scientist in Austria. Smilin' Jack, the aerial barnstormer, smiles no more-he is doing his level best to keep the Russians from sabotaging the U.S. space effort. Winnie Winkle went to Moscow as a fashionable emissary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; alas, she wound up in the Russian pokey steaming away time in the laundry on trumped-up charges of espionage...
Powers had cooperated with his Soviet captors to the point of revealing the name of the unit commander who had given him his orders; he admitted making previous flights along the Russian border, and acknowledged at his Moscow trial that as an aerial agent he had performed "very ill service." Had Powers been brainwashed? Why had he not fired the charges that would have destroyed his plane? How high was he flying when hit-and what had hit him? Was it, as Khrushchev claimed, a Russian rocket at 68,000 ft.? Or did he have a flameout...
...Chinese bomb that killed Robert Reischauer. He was on a study tour of China, leading a group of students, when war with Japan broke out. While he was registering at the Cathay Hotel in Shanghai, a Chinese aerial bomb aimed at Japanese warships in the river landed outside the hotel...