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Tuesday (June 27) at 5 p.m. I boarded a plane for Seoul's Kimpo airfield. With me were three other correspondents-Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News, Burton Crane of the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins...
Last week at Paris' Orly Airfield, some 500,000 spectators peered into blue skies and clutched their ears as U.S. and British jet fighters screeched past in France's National Air Fete. President of the Republic Vincent Auriol sat pleasantly and peacefully in his box, a study in pearl grey. Then, suddenly, a little man dressed all in white, wearing a white baseball cap and carrying two paddles walked on to the field. It was Choreographer Lifar...
...Russian airfield near Berlin one day last week, a passerby paused to ask a cement worker what he was doing. The worker looked up sullenly and muttered: "It's all for peace, my friend, all for peace...
Such bits of gossip are scarce, because the Soviet air force lives in strict seclusion; the bright blue shoulder boards of the Red airmen are seen only rarely by East zone Germans. Airmen and service troops are frequently moved from one airfield to another to prevent accurate estimates of their strength. There are also frequent exchanges of personnel between East Germany and the Soviet Union, so that as many pilots as possible may familiarize themselves with the terrain and weather conditions of Eastern and Central Europe...
There was no return-only a long silence. Next day a score of U.S. planes swooped onto a Danish airfield to begin a needlepoint-fine search through the squalls and fog of the Baltic Sea. Danish and Swedish planes and boats pitched in to help. It was a nerve-racking business, for the narrow Baltic is virtually a moat lying between Russia's heavily armed northwestern seacoast and the Western world. Along the shores of captive Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the U.S.S.R. has laid down heavy rocket installations and submarine pens, and has girdled them all with high-powered...