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Floating Home City. Lake Holiday, an hour west of Chicago, has been open scarcely a year, but Edmund Faltz and his family have already floated a small armada of three boats. Says Mrs. Faltz: "The lake is just perfect for us. My husband used to play golf. Now we do things together as a family." Most of Perine's new lake dwellers use their houses for weekends and vacations, but some fall in love with the idea and decide to make it permanent. Angelo Clements, for example, plans to live year-round at the Lakes of the Four Seasons...
...Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea for a fix on her position. Too late. Itasca failed to get a fix, and so, subsequently, did an armada of U.S. fleet searchers...
...told, McCoy's Navy has killed 665 Viet Cong, destroyed 4,367 buildings, sunk 297 gunrunning sampans, and fired 31,251 rockets. Most important, not a single South Vietnamese outpost within range of his rockets has been overrun during the three months his "little armada" has been in action. "The PT was the boat of World War II," he says...
...fast, in fact, that the Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany him). "Here comes Linton" (hill-country pronunciation of the President's name), chuckle the fishermen as the armada approaches, or-if they happen to have blinked-"There goes Linton...
...Hanoi's own, why the decision to commit a fledgling force of some 60 MIG-15s and 17s and only 15 MIG-215 to combat with the vastly larger and more experienced American air armada? The most likely explanation: in severing Hanoi's rail links to China, the U.S. was hitting so uncomfortably close to home that every defense had to be employed. Under the high drama of last week's dogfights, the workhorse bombers were busy as ever. Guam-based B-52s unloaded 300 tons of high explosives on the Mu Gia Pass infiltration route into...