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Lambert took a ride in a flare plane, an elderly, two-engine relic of World War II. Not long after the coppery Korean sunset had disappeared, the pilot called a ground station: "Hello, Bandbox. Hello, Bandbox. This is Firefly One, Firefly...
...Bandbox answered: "Hello, Firefly One. Hello, Firefly One. We have a target for you. We will mark the area with two volleys of white phosphorus shells. Take a heading north from your present position and look straight ahead...
...Roger," said the pilot. Soon, on the northern horizon, there were two quick orange bursts. "Got it," said Firefly One to Bandbox. "Saw 'em both...
Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...
...Victors (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Thornton Wilder; produced by New Stages, Inc.) is sponsored by the same experimental group that last season made a bandbox hit, and then a Broadway hit, of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute. The new production is by no means so likely to triumph at the box office: it is very little more convincing than The Respectful Prostitute was, and it is a good deal less exciting and scandalous...