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Military planes came anyway. A French B-24 flew from Viet Nam and began circling the scene. From carrier decks roared eight U.S. Navy Skyraiders convoying a Philippine-based Air Force amphibian. The Reds, bustling about 100 yards away on tiny Taichow Island, did nothing as the U.S. amphibian, with fighter cover circling overhead, landed on the water, loaded the survivors and flew them off to a Hong Kong hospital...
...least 17 people lost their lives. It might have been much worse but for the prompt help of the U.S. Army's 4,000-man disaster team, which rescued 300 by helicopter, evacuated thousands of others in amphibian trucks and 150 assault boats. In Germany, G.I.s worked alongside 5,000 Bavarian policemen and 3,000 frontier guards for a week, fighting the floods. In Bonn, Konrad Adenauer and his Cabinet voted to thank the helpful Americans. Wired Adenauer: "The German population is filled with deep gratitude." At the U.S. Air Force base at Tulln, near Vienna, 40 airmen rode...
...which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will tote- among other frills-a doctor's operating room, sailboat, speedboat and amphibian airplane. When he has nothing else to do (such as dropping in at Monte Carlo's famed Casino, which he owns, crap tables and all), Onassis will rough it on the Christina and use her for an office...
Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport...
...nevertheless proved himself an impressively facile designer, and eventually United Aircraft & Transport Corp. assimilated his Sikorsky Aviation Corp. By 1937 he had made his mark all over again. The Sikorsky amphibian was a famous plane, and Sikorsky's four-engine Clippers were blazing Pan American's transoceanic routes on both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Sikorsky did not rest on his laurels. He rose at a meeting of United's operating committee, bowed and calmly announced that the time had come to perfect the helicopter...