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...Rebel Airlift. Last week into Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, winged planeload after planeload of arms and ammunition bound for the Congo from Ghana, Algeria and Egypt. Secrecy hung thick as a cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...
...keeping it up for 26 weeks. His program, syndicated in nearly 60 cities, is his ultimate personal soapbox, on which he intends to tell his version of the story-if not for once, for all. In future weeks he will discuss everything from the atom bomb to the Berlin airlift, but mainly he will simply aim his chin at the camera...
...Washington, Albany and Los Angeles as well. In addition to our six usual printing locations in the U.S. and Canada-Montreal, Chicago, Washington, Albany, Los Angeles and Old Saybrook, Conn.- this issue was printed in San Francisco and also bound in Hartford and Concord, N.H. Massive airlift was used to speed the copies to newsstands and post offices, utilizing both chartered and commercial planes...
...More Airlift. All of these factors, to a greater or lesser degree, were present throughout Khrushchev's ten-year reign. Indeed, his leadership of Russian Communism was gravely threatened once before. In 1957, a group of Stalinist rebels led by Malenkov met in the turbulent wake of Nikita's 20th Party Congress denunciation, which took Stalinism apart. Khrushchev was then...
...Charger's job is no more modern than its look; the turboprop plane is a jungle fighter, a volunteer for the brush-fire wars of today's world. It can strafe a target at 50 m.p.h., yet escape from danger at eight times that speed. It can airlift a ton of cargo or a fully armed squad of paratroopers, take off from a bumpy jungle airfield less than 500 ft. long, land on a strip only 100 ft. in length. For all its old-fashioned air, though, from its twin-boom fuselage to its lofty, boxlike tail...