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...Vietnamese seldom stay out in the field for more than 24 hours at a stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that it is seven feet above sea level, and the Bac Lieu airstrip sports a sign giving its elevation as "Dry season: two feet above sea level. Rainy season: two feet below sea level...
...Winrock is for Winthrop, but the Rock is for Rock the bull, not Rockefeller. Then he put in six artificial lakes, rebuilt the original house as a stone-and-glass palazzo, pumped water 850 ft. up the side of Petit Jean for an irrigation system, built roads and an airfield. He owns four planes, including a ten-passenger jet, employs five pilots, and has flown more than 3,000,000 miles with his private air force. He has no hobbies apart from occasional tree-pruning excursions. His vocation and avocation have become the state and the State of Arkansas...
...Corp., Ltd., to develop it. For the five-year construction job, Brinco expects to hire 5,000 men, fly in 600 million lbs. of equipment and supplies. For a starter, it has already bridged the river above the falls, and built an access road to a townsite and an airfield 10 miles away...
...Mayor Lindsay, notfiied of the demonstration, flew by police helicopter from the Wall Street heliport to an airfield in Brooklyn. A few minutes later his black sedan drew up behind the crowd of shouting protestors. As he stepped out of the car and was recognized, there was sudden silence...
...service ties the camp to downtown An Khe and the airfield. By comparison with Stateside bases, the Air Cav's lO-sq.-mi. complex is small. "But then," notes one officer wryly, "you don't need a training area here...