Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...
...banana" copters have become increasingly vulnerable as the Viet Cong learn how to use new rapid-fire weapons; in one sortie near the delta village of Apbac last January, they downed five of 14 helicopters, including one of the 24 fast, rocket-firing HU-1B ("Huey") helicopters that now escort most missions. Last week a second company of 24 Hueys arrived at a new base near Vinh Long. "Operations were down in the hundreds a year ago," says General Paul Harkins, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam. "Now they're in the thousands." But normal battlefield statistics...
Paris premiere, she queened it quite fetchingly with Georges Cheiko, European movie director who has been Lollo's fre quent escort while movie commitments keep her from her husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, who is home in Italy...
...Mindszenty out. Accordingly, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, a skilled, diplomatic archbishop whom the Pope has used on other delicate missions, is arranging to visit Budapest, possibly within a month. He will gently inform Mindszenty that the Pope wants him to leave, and. if Mindszenty agrees, may escort him to the Austrian border and freedom...
Five hundred autos filled with Justice Party followers formed a traffic-snarling motorcade to escort the 79-year-old Bayar from prison to his Ankara home. Next day, huge crowds milled around the house, and 10,000 supporters massed near parliament to shout his slogans. Two sympathetic Turkish air force pilots happily buzzed the city in their jets...