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High over the jungle green hills of Laos, unmarked U.S. transport planes loosed red and white parachutes that floated down the supplies of war: ammunition, clothing and food. Only a few miles away, across a canyon or a hill. Russian Ilyushins bounced onto rough turf runways bearing howitzers, mortars, assault guns and Communist technicians to man them. Among all the crises around the world, only in the remote and rugged northern Laos were Communist and anti-Communist armies lined...
...summer the floods brought by the monsoon rains lap under the stilted houses and over the 500 miles of meandering dirt roads. Years ago, someone built a railroad station in Savannakhet, but never got around to building a railroad. The Me kong River, crashing down from a canyon in China's Yunnan province, then slowed by silt and sewage on its 1,600-mile run to the South China Sea, is the principal means of transportation and is known as "the soul of Laos." In normal times, the principal exports are illegal opium and a little...
...Manhattan apartment. For the background. Koerner climbed to the top of the New York Post building "so I could see Wall Street and make blobs. The wind was fantastic and I said to myself, 'Why am I so insane?' But I wanted the blackness of the canyon, with a background of evenly lit windows. You invent...
...Oakland center was born of disaster: on June 30, 1956 a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation and a United Air Lines DC-7 lumbered blindly into each other over the Grand Canyon, sent 128 passengers and crew members to their deaths, and convinced the last cost-conscious doubter that the nation's traffic control system was dangerously inadequate. As a direct result of the collision and others, Congress created the Federal Aviation Agency and this year provided $150 million to build a network of 26 new control centers. Of these, Oakland is the first...
...trip, Kennedy-and the trackside crowds-warmed to the oldfashioned whistle-stop idea. In tiny Dunsmuir, deep in the shadows of 14,000-ft. Mount Shasta, 500 chilly citizens and a tiny burro greeted the candidate and the new day with a rousing cheer that echoed up the canyon. At Redding the sun was warmer, and 1,500 citizens lined up under a fringe of trees along the siding while Kennedy trotted out the old nostalgia ("I follow here in 1960 the same trail Harry Truman took in 1948 when he came down this valley and carried California...