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Compared to the other new embassies in the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi set up by Nehru, it is. About the only people who ever had any serious objections to it were its chief occupants, Ambassador and Mrs. Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a man of conservative tastes, complained about the lacy grille that covered the great expanse of glass, plaintively said. "I want to see the blue sky." Mrs. Bunker, who not long ago began promoting long-handled brooms for Indian sweepers-and thus closely resembled the character in The Ugly American called "the woman who unbent the backs...
...last week's countdown was delayed only 27 minutes for a minor technical difficulty. Running the test and pressing the big button was a man appropriately named for the job: Engineer Bob Shotwell, 47. With great restraint, Shotwell and his 40-man launch team quietly waited in their bunker a full seven minutes after the lift-off before they dared shout. Then, says Shotwell, "everybody started congratulating everybody. We knew we had done it. It was going like a bullet; nothing could stop it." To celebrate, the Atlas contractor, Convair, launched a bubbly champagne party at the nearby Starlite...
...except the public well. Next to the well stood the ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...
...landing craft finally ducked clear of the firing and headed into Quemoy's south coast. At 1:30 the bowlip slammed down, revealing a ghostly white beach. Communist shells were pounding over. We ran for it, and came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
...crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick stream, then in a torrent...