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...magnified the Communist role beyond all reality? Had the revolutionaries, knocked off balance by Ortega's premature publicity, dropped their plan, or just deferred it? Last week the U.S. press front-paged reports that seven fighter planes bought from U.S. Army surplus had taken off from a Florida airfield, heading south. Trujillo's apprehensive plane patrols still scanned offshore waters and soldiers still manned the Dominican beaches...
...Orly Airfield the temperature stood at 90° when Argentina's touring First Lady, dazzling in a white suit, white shoes, white handbag and a big white cartwheel hat, stepped out of a DC-4. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault came forward, bowed, kissed her hand. "On behalf of France," said he, "I welcome you warmly and affectionately." Then a motorcade whisked la belle blonde, as Parisians called her, to the Ritz...
...left hand), had been sentenced to a 16-year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...
...Manhattan, Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 15-year-old brother of the Shah of Persia, disappeared from his hotel room shortly before he was to be taken off to summer school. Next day the Prince, who had already run away from one school in Beirut, another in Switzerland, alighted at Orly Airfield near Paris. Where next? The Persian Minister in Paris, who had promptly taken the Prince in hand, told the press: "It depends on his brother," and briskly pulled down the diplomatic curtain...
Almost every U.S. town wants an airfield of its own. But when the local Chamber of Commerce or the American Legion post tries to establish one, prospective neighbors complain bitterly and point to some other part of town. Better no airport at all than one so close that plane noises will panic the chickens and disturb folks' sleep...