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...Retina* was the latest in a series of airlift demonstrations that have whisked troops from home bases in the U.S. to hypothetical hotspots in Iran, Turkey, Greece, Norway and West Germany. It was also the longest distance that airborne troops had ever been flown to a parachute drop. A fleet of 44 C-141s and 33 smaller, slower propjet C-130 Hercules transports carried 2,500 men and 721 tons of supplies and equipment from the eastern U.S. to South Korea. Aside from the weather delay, there were few untoward hitches in the military exercise. One paratrooper's static...
...really want to do," says Agent Arnold Pinkney, "is take these athletes and teach them how to spin their first big buck." When spun by Jim Hand Enterprises, the variations are seemingly endless. Hand's boys, traveling in his fleet of new Jaguars and Cadillacs, are constantly on the move. Deacon Jones is taking dancing lessons in preparation for his Las Vegas nightclub act. There are the Lance Alworth dry-cleaning shops. The Donny Anderson boys' camp. The Rick Barry syndicated sports column. And, named according to regional fan interest, the Lance Alworth, Donny Anderson and Rick Barry...
Junior Keith Colburn broke his own university record in the 1000 with a 2:08.6 clocking last Saturday and is listed as a co-favorite in that event tonight. The fleet redhead has worked hard this week in anticipation of a tight race with Villanova's Frank Murphy, St. John's' Phil Tobin, and NYU's Byron Dyce...
...think a man who does this," Freeman observed, "has a quality of guts and courage and steadfastness of purpose which is part of the bedrock of statesmanship." If steadfastness is a criterion, then Freeman, now 54, is no statesman. His mutant career has led through the House of Commons, Fleet Street journalism, television and diplomacy. The son of a well-to-do lawyer, Schoolboy Freeman was converted to socialism by the sight of Depression hunger marchers in 1931. As a young Member of Parliament, he was spotted as a comer by no less a judge than Winston Churchill...
Parked near by was a huge blue and silver trailer always ready to roll off for a royal romp. Saud was accompanied in exile by a fleet of flashy cars, 20 chauffeurs and an entourage that occupied 60 of the hotel's 72 rooms at a monthly rate of nearly $67,000. He was as wealthy as any king need be, and wealthier than almost any are these days. Reasonably accurate guesses pegged his bank balance at some $600 million, drawn from royalties on the oil that has been gushing for years from beneath the golden sands of Saudi...