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...nights and a day, the 17,000-ton missile cruiser Canberra cut through an uneasy sea in rain and fog that blotted out the destroyers Barton and Wood port and starboard. Finally, on the second day, after knifing through the Gulf Stream, Canberra moved into the Bahama Islands' 100-mile-long Exuma Sound to be welcomed by warm sun and blue sky. Behind, through the veil of rain, lay the ship's Norfolk pier and beyond that Ike's own pier, the White House. On the horizon: the ragged smudge of Cat Island. To the northeast...
...less than three years," said John Foster Dulles, before flying off last week to a gathering of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Canberra, "SEATO has become firmly established and has made a positive contribution to peace and stability." His words were a little optimistic for an organization whose initials may sound like NATO, but unlike NATO is only a paper pact without an armed force of its own. More impressive than Dulles' words is the fact of his strenuous trip, meant to show that despite all of the demands of Europe and the Middle East, Asian defense rates...
...chill November night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were...
...briefing had run behind schedule, the flap and undercarriage buttons were close together. Said Kenyon: "I have no political or religious views; I gave that reason merely because I was dreadfully worried over my tragic mistake. It was far better, I thought, to say I had intentionally caused the Canberra damage rather than to say I had made a mistake and was incompetent." The prosecutor, pointing out that Kenyon by his own admission had been unable to sleep or eat for days, charged that Kenyon had wrecked his plane out of simple fear...
...vacations was spoiled a little by shop talk about executions. After Evdokia and Vladimir were married in 1940, they were an enviable and well-adjusted husband-and-wife team in the world's bloodiest police force. What went wrong with their lives? Posted to the Soviet embassy in Canberra, the Petrovs never had it so good. With his pay as colonel in the MVD-plus her pay as captain-they made $18,550, more than the salary of the Australian Prime Minister. But in contrast to the loose, shirt-sleeved, friendly Australian society, the Petrovs lived a life between...