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Traveling up to 100 miles behind enemy lines, Birch radioed back word on prime Japanese targets. He directed the building of three airstrips within enemy territory. For his work, Birch was awarded the Legion of Merit, got a posthumous Oak Leaf Cluster for "exceptionally meritorious service...
...ramp of the twin-engined Ilyushin-14 warned that the plane would have to fly "very high" and be blacked out. Reason: "U.S. jets" might try to shoot it down. At Hanoi that night. North Viet Nam Premier Pham Van Dong turned out at the runway with a cluster of pretty little girls bearing flowers, then drove Prince Souvanna off to the state guesthouse in a long cortege of limousines through streets dark and deserted except for the squads of soldiers guarding intersections. Early next morning, the Ilyushin flew over the mist-shrouded mountains of northern Laos to a grassy...
Abroad she likes the relaxed atmosphere concerning "the matter of pigmentation," nevertheless spends most of her time with her accompanist, or secretary, or the professionals that cluster around opera houses and recording companies. She has been taken in warmly at the Met where she is known, according to a colleague, as "not typical by singer standards-she's too nice...
...Emily, "and we were both tired. We don't mix in politics anyway." But to Emily's surprise, Heller decided after dinner to go out after all and take a look at the man who might be the next President of the U.S. As Heller approached the cluster of people gathered around Kennedy, Minnesota's Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, who knew Heller as a longtime economic consultant to Minnesota politicians, beckoned him and introduced him to the candidate. Other people in the cluster stepped back a bit, as if they thought Kennedy and Heller might have some...
...pressure from those who saw the vast advantage the Communists would have in space exploration through their ability to lift heavy loads aloft, the Eisenhower Administration got moving in 1958 on the 1,500,000-lb.-thrust Saturn booster, a relatively primitive design of eight engines in a single cluster. The Saturn has been static-tested, but will not be operational until 1965 or 1966. Only recently has the program been allotted anything more than a shoestring budget for research and development...