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...pack coolies, fanned out in the tube-shaped area between the Red and Black Rivers, as if their commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, intended to force the Black in strength. Last week France's General Raoul Salan countered this move, which had alarmed the French, by an airlift of troops, arms and supplies to the Black's west bank. He also dispatched a force from the Hanoi perimeter to the confluence of the two rivers. This force occupied the war-battered village of Hunghoa, cut two Communist communication lines, and threatened the left flank of Giap...
...airlift for pilgrims to Mecca...
...even more trouble in 1951, when its pilots refused to take Northwest's Martin 2025 aloft after five of them had crashed (TIME, April 23, 1951). The line had to ground 20 planes, then later sold them. With rented planes and Government contracts to fly the Pacific airlift, the line showed a profit in 1951. But in the first six months of this year, the airline lost...
...closemouthed Russian team, some 400 strong, which was constantly convoyed by 300 stony-faced "officials." Making their first Olympic appearance since the Czarist days of 1912 (when they didn't win a single gold medal), the Russians had apparently abandoned their idea of shuttling the Red athletes by airlift in & out of Helsinki each day. Instead, they were immured in a separate "Little Iron Curtain" village, six miles from the Olympic Stadium. But they were plainly on their best behavior. Located next to the U.S. boathouse, Russian oarsmen jovially insisted on lending the Americans a scull...
Elephants Aloft. It soon earned a reputation for flying planes anywhere, anytime, carrying anything. Four days after the Russian blockade, Seaboard was asked by the Air Force to help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish...