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Phantoms v. MIGs. On U.S. radarscopes in Florida, the MIGs had been traced out of Cuba. As soon as they passed the 24th parallel, 50-odd miles north of Havana, two U.S. Marine Phantom interceptors scrambled from Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West. The Marines raced toward the MIGs at 1,600 m.p.h., met them near the boat, some 60 miles north of Cuba, within five minutes. They saw the MIGs fire at the stricken vessel, radioed Boca Chica for instructions. Four more Phantoms were dispatched...
...deed to Brazil's richest diamond mine, Tijuco, in the landlocked interior state of Minas Gerais. To Dom João's castle, Brazil's most aristocratic mothers brought their loveliest daughters. But Dom João spurned them all for a Negro slave girl named Chica da Silva. Dom João fell madly in love, bought Chica and installed her as head of his household...
...Whatever Chica wanted, Chica got. Her husband built her a palace with gilded rooms, turrets and landscaped gardens. At parties, she made her entrance down a marble staircase while small boys scattered flowers in her path. When she wanted to go sailing, Dom João built a sea-sized private lake, ordered a sailing ship from Portugal and had it hauled from Rio to Tijuco by horse and slave...
While Estes blasted Richard Nixon and Republican corruption, Campaign Assistant J. Howard McGrath sniped at National Committeeman Carmine De Sapio (who led the anti-Stevenson-Kefauver forces on Harriman's behalf at the Chica go convention): "He must have a vested interest in seeing this ticket defeated." But after Kefauver received telegrams of welcome from De Sapio and Governor Harriman, McGrath cooled down, accepted the explanation of local leaders: they were busy 24 hours a day getting voters registered for the election, could not spare time even to accompany their candidate. Said McGrath: "Merely a tempest in a teapot...
...Columbine III, the President reached Key West in 3½ hours. He was accompanied by his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and Mamie Eisenhower would follow them down for New Year's weekend. He got a rousing welcome as he drove from Boca Chica Naval Air Station to the Key West U.S. Navy Base, passing along Roosevelt Boulevard, Truman Street (which sports a Margaret Truman Launderette) and by Eisenhower Drive, which had been known, until the night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking golf balls...