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...Taipei. Conversely, they are much too far from Formosa to be steppingstones for a Red approach to the Nationalist stronghold: their principal value is as an early radar warning post for air attacks from the North. The Pentagon considers the Tachens "valuable but not vital." They have one small airfield which cannot now be used because of artillery from Yikiang; there is a second-rate radar station. Believing the Tachens expendable, the Pentagon says that it long ago tried to persuade the Nationalists to withdraw from them. Last week, after the fall of Yikiang, the U.S. pulled out its small...
...sightseer travels past rows of cement kilns made by Vickers, past Vickers oil-storage tanks, Vickers rubber plants, steel mills, printing plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers electrified train. Going home again, he boards a Vickers airliner on an airfield carved out by Vickers tractors and earth movers. And this is only half the business. For defense, Vickers also makes shells, cannon and 50-ton Centurion tanks, battleships (the 44,460-ton King George V), carriers (the 31,790-ton Illustrious), destroyers, a new type sub that runs on hydrogen peroxide...
...Clare Boothe Luce, who prodded Washington and London into working out a settlement of the nine-year Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia (TIME, Oct. 11), made her first visit to the prize involved in the diplomatic triumph. With top aides from the Rome embassy, she landed at Gorizia Airfield, proceeded by motorcade some 25 miles to the city of Trieste, where waiting citizens waved a welcome and tossed flowers to her. At city hall, she returned to Mayor Gianni Bartoli the 600-year-old manuscript of Italian Poet Francesco Petrarch's Africa, which had vanished from a Naples...
...Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, Carrot checks all aircraft reported by the regional radar and observer net (including Mother Goose). Carrot identifies planes through flight plans, airfield reports and other means, including IFF ("Identification Friend or Foe,' electronic gadgets emitting special signals). No plane can remain unidentified for more than two minutes-the maximum is fixed by General Chidlaw's order-without the air controller at Carrot ordering a jet scramble...
...crucial decision took place the night Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, alarmed by threats to his power, returned from Washington with $105 million in U.S. economic aid. Ali's plane touched down at Karachi's airfield, where soldiers in battledress were drawn up, ostensibly to honor him. A crowd of perhaps 5,000 people had gathered, and to them Ali made a brief speech on his success with the Americans. "How about the crisis?" a reporter intervened. "What crisis?" answered Mohammed Ali with a grin...