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Lambert took a ride in a flare plane, an elderly, two-engine relic of World War II. Not long after the coppery Korean sunset had disappeared, the pilot called a ground station: "Hello, Bandbox. Hello, Bandbox. This is Firefly One, Firefly...
Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...
...flipped a switch, and a beam of strong light bore down through the flare-light. "Roger, Firefly, Roger," said the Invader pilot. He dived through winking flashes of small-arms fire and dropped two tanks of napalm on the hill, which burst into flame. "That's good, that's good, Firefly," exulted Bandbox. "That's right in there. Give 'em a few more...
...discovery by Shapley and his Harvard colleagues of the periodic flare-up of Proxima Centauri, the star nearest the earth (25 trillion miles). These explosive flashes double the intensity of the star, which is normally 10,000 times brighter than...
...shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...