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When the French defiantly sent a helicopter aloft. Tunisians fired a few "warning shots" in its direction. Then, to reinforce the base in the face of these alarums and excursions, the French flew in 800 paratroopers. As the parachutes blossomed down onto the airfield, Tunisians sprayed them with machine guns...
...would slow his plane down, and a reserve supply of hydraulic fluid would permit some operation of the main landing-gear brakes. As a last resort, the pilot could jam on the brakes with an emergency supply of compressed air. Grosso radioed for a routine stand-by of Stapleton Airfield's fire trucks and announced to the passengers that the landing might be "a little rough...
...special train from Moscow. After meeting Austrian officials and inspecting an honor guard, the Khrushchevs will motor to suburban Purkersdorf, where the Russian embassy maintains a comfortable villa. Next morning, by jet from France, President Kennedy and Jacqueline are scheduled to touch down on Vienna's Schwechat airfield. After exchanging amenities with Austria's President Adolf Schärf, the Kennedy motorcade will wind through the heart of Vienna and to the U.S. embassy residence in suburban Heitzing, an iron-fenced villa surrounded by four acres of sloping lawn and hidden from casual sightseers by rhododendron...
...Revolutionary Council were driven from Manhattan to Philadelphia by the CIA and flown to a secret rendezvous in Florida, where they could be held in readiness to move into the first available chunk of "free Cuba." They were lodged in an old house near an abandoned airfield, surrounded by a swarm of agents, ordered to stay put. At one point, some of the council members announced that they were going to leave, even if it meant getting shot, but were put off with promises. Eventually, Kennedy's Latin American affairs specialists, Adolf A. Berle and Arthur Schlesinger, flew...
...Widen had no need to fear on that December day in 1942. The Nazi pilot did not harm him, instead set down his 109 and went over to meet Widen, who had landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them...