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...Miami, where newspapers have campaigned against everything from bookies and police graft to female impersonators, newspaper crusades usually die as quickly as they flare up. A notable exception was a crusade by James M. Cox's Miami Daily News (circ. 100,177). By last week it had already swept a handful of state officials out of office-and it looked as if the campaign was just really getting under way. The News started off with an investigation of the toll district in the middle of the 122-mile Overseas Highway connecting the Florida Keys with the mainland. Built...
...your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
...from Hanoi, Colonel D. blacked out the plane. A few minutes later, Sergeant K., hunched over a radio set, reported: "We have contact with Dienbienphu." Deep down below us, a brilliant white light floated in the air for a few seconds, then died out-perhaps a Communist mortar flare. Luciole started weaving on a gentle, irregular pattern...
...colonel scribbled notes on the traffic below. The crew chief began a letter to his wife: "Ma chère petite." Above us, Privateer bombers also kept vigil, waiting like Luciole's flares for a Communist attack. The French keep bombers and at least one flare plane in relays over Dienbienphu every night...
...Beacon. At 0050, air-ground reported: "Banjo Six is going in."Tracers arched over the drop zone. On Banjo Six's second pass, there were more enemy tracers and white bursts of flak following the plane. Banjo Six reported one hit but no casualties. At 0103, a mortar flare bloomed over the drop zone and revealed, for an elusive moment, the trenches and scarred earth below. Then mortar shells burst in angry red balls across the drop zone. For the paratroopers that was the toughest drop of the night...