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Partly because Camp Alpha is about as cheerful as a bus depot, there is no great sense of liberated joy among the troops in transit. "I guess that we are all happy inside," said one airman last week, "but the outside is still numb...
...cover: South Vietnamese woman holding flags in preparation for truce; Le Due Tho and Kissinger after initialing in Paris; U.S. airman tossing helmet at Tan Son Nhut airfield, South Viet Nam, after cease-fire news; P.O.W. wife Margaret Lengyel...
...with their six-man crews, suffered the worst losses. During the previous seven years, only one of the giant planes had gone down in combat. Last week at least eight were shot from the sky. After the first five days of strikes, the Pentagon acknowledged losing twelve aircraft. One airman was reported killed and 43 missing, 38 from the Air Force and five from the Navy...
...patient's circulatory system. Colonel Gerald Klebanoff of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, attempted the pioneering procedure af-ter Olson had been in a coma for three days and showed no indications of reviving. Klebanoff and his team hooked the unconscious airman to a conventional heart-lung machine that pumped the toxic blood from his body. In place of the blood they introduced a clear salt solution that cooled Olson's body to 85°. This reduced the brain's need for oxygen and hence guarded against damage while the treatment progressed...
...movies, he turned to aviation, where, despite having had no formal training, he proved to be something of a genius at aviation design and engineering. In 1935 he introduced the H1, the first plane with flush rivets to reduce drag, and was honored as the nation's outstanding airman by President Roosevelt. He set transcontinental speed records, then in 1937 flew a refitted Lockheed transport round the world in three days 19 hours, halving Wiley Post's old record...