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Pilot Norman L. Widen, his eyes corked black to cut glare, swung his twin-engined P-38 sharply over a German-held airfield in Tunis, put an Me 109 in his gunsight and blasted away. Just as the 109 coughed black smoke, a sudden clatter of shells peppered Widen's armor plate from behind, clipped his helmet and set his own plane afire. Quickly, Widen pulled back on his throttles and bailed out. As he drifted toward the ground, Widen saw his assailant: another Me 109 was circling him menacingly. Mindful of stories that Nazis had been known...
...Congress that hundreds of Cubans were being given commando training by U.S. instructors at the air-base and at several coffee plantations in the area - including one owned by a close friend of the President. As evidence, they cited reports from a carpenter who had worked on the airfield and a butcher who was supposedly supplying one coffee plan tation with 10,000 lbs. of meat a week...
...When the big order finally came. Powers picked up a sack of sandwiches from his wife and flew southeast with Colonel Shelton to Pakistan, stopping once to refuel along the way. ("I do not remember the name of the airfield. I think it could have been Bahrein.") His briefing from Shelton was short-an hour and a half in which "I barely had time to study my maps." Powers claimed no knowledge of two unmarked survivor maps and the plea in 14 languages ("I need food and shelter; you will be rewarded") that the Russians claimed to have found...
...with a rifle butt, stripped the others of their wallets and watches. As Ghanaian troops moved in to intervene, the U.N.'s Indian Brigadier Inder J. Rikhye swooped down by helicopter from his Leopoldville headquarters. Livid with rage, he roared at the Congolese: "I order you off this airfield immediately!" Meekly they drifted away. Reinforced U.N. troops began putting up barbed wire barricades around the field with orders to shoot if any further armed Congolese showed...
Jordan's foremost exponent of speed, dashing young King Hussein, 24, will try any means of locomotion once. Last week, on an airfield near his capital of Amman, Hussein-looking a little bit like a young Thomas E. Dewey-climbed into one of the latest species of automobiles, a "go kart," a low-center-of-gravity vehicle that can hit speeds of up to 85 m.p.h. Driving the little racer, which affords drivers an illusion of Grand Prix speeds, brought a grin to Hussein, who normally makes time in road-burning sports cars or jets...