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...banana-shaped Shawnee helicopters, carrying a maximum of 21 soldiers and able to stay aloft three hours without refueling, should be invaluable in the jungle fighting against the Communist guerrillas, putting down South Vietnamese reinforcements at precisely the spot they are needed. As he stepped ashore in Saigon last week, one U.S. pilot said: "We have mixed emotions about being here, but our job is to fly the bananas and that's what...
...would come to "curse" the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school integration decision. YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US, thundered a 1956 Sullens editorial charging that anyone who was "not worried over the imminence of miscegenation, mixed marriages and mongrelization" had "no more backbone than a skinned banana." When Sullens died four years ago, the editor's chair passed to onetime News Carrier Boy Jimmy Ward, and the News's racist drum missed not a beat...
...Banana Flavor. The plan was to allow Enos to orbit the earth three times before parachuting the capsule into the Atlantic. But in case of trouble, ships and planes had been deployed in eight widely separated landing places. As the capsule soared over Africa for the second time, everything was normal. While it was crossing the Indian Ocean, Enos was doing minor tasks that earned him sips of water and ten small, banana-flavored pellets, which were delivered mechanically when he pushed the proper levers. But as the capsule approached Australia, the monitor station at Muchea on the west coast...
...poorest and least stable of Latin America's underdeveloped nations is Ecuador, a small, banana-growing republic perched on South America's Pacific rump. Ecuador's 4,400,000 people earn a per-capita annual income of only $165, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; by no coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash...
...Dallas: For story on Texas amusement park, is it correct to say that the 103 fans are in oak trees, palm trees and banana trees? See SHOW BUSINESS, Under Nothin...