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Across the hall in 601, Martin B. Vidgoff '66, and George Neville '66 dash through the flaming hallway, choking and blinded by black smoke, toward the south stairway. Their roommates David J. Losk '66 and Robert M. Coleman '66, try unsuccessfully to escape through the seventh-floor fire exits, but are also forced to exit through their blazing living room...
...explore the possibilities of a genuinely effective underground inside Cuba. When Castro boasts that he has captured and executed CIA men, he is often telling the truth. Other than that, the U.S. is content to watch Cuba with high-flying U-2s and an occasional supersonic treetop dash by Air Force RF-101 or Navy RA-5C reconnaissance jets. Should Castro shoot down one of the jets with his Soviet-supplied SAM II missiles, the U.S. contingency plan is to "take out" -meaning obliterate-the specific SAM site involved. The plan, as of now, does not call for invasion...
...California's Ed Weiner: the $10,000 Transcontinental Trophy Dash for propeller-driven airplanes, piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...MARK-46. A lightweight, self-guided, solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs; it can be dropped from a plane or an unmanned remote-controlled helicopter called DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), dives to a preset depth, then zigzags around in search of enemy subs...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently warned that "complacent and prosperous manufacturers must get off their backsides," insisted that Britain can no longer tolerate "workers who inflict harm on production with go-slows or sporadic strikes in defiance of their own union." A government report has just accused Jack Dash, the unofficial leader of London's dock workers, of disrupting export-centered work on London's docks. Though the government does not admit so publicly, its policy is now clearly aimed at creating unemployment on purpose to rid the economy of irresponsible labor disturbances, force workers to shift into...