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During the war, Westerling fought with the Australian troops in North Africa, later organized a Dutch commando force in the East Indies. He was kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, began to recruit his own private army to fight against the new Indonesian Republic. His 10,000 troops, mostly Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army, call themselves "The Heavenly Host." Recently, Westerling sent 600 of his men on a raid of West Java's Bandung (TIME, Feb. 6); he boasted that he would conquer all of Indonesia. But last week, Westerling's military future...
Getting through New Haven's commando-course will be something of a problem, however, for anyone not safely in a bus. The legendary New Haven trolleys have bowed to the modern age, but the streets are still clogged and slow. And taxis are high...
...university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following his famed father's profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last month a cornea transplantation in Geneva gave him brief hope. Soon afterward the darkness set in again...
...simple tape-cutting ceremony, Connecticut opened the New Haven section of the Wilbur Cross Parkway and left the commando-course city traffic to the local citizenry and the Yalies. The result is straight parkway from New York City to the middle of Connecticut...
...years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look at the non-skeds' safety practices...