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...Plane & Fishing Fleet. To cover their identities, many delegates traveled on phony passports, readily available in most major Latin American cities. Delegates who flew to Mexico City and caught one of the twice-weekly Cubana Airlines flights to Havana had to submit to laborious immigration and secret-police screenings by Mexican authorities. Some, like Carmichael, flew to Prague or Moscow and then to Havana. Others worked their way to the Yucatan, and were whisked by special undercover "fishing fleets" across the 125-mile Yucatan Channel to Cuba. A Venezuelan guerrilla leader named Amerigo Martin even went...
...amount of togetherness unheard of in most political campaigns. The South Vietnamese have planned the campaign so that all candidates will have the opportunity to speak on the same day in each of 23 towns, and the candidates will be ferried from place to place in a fleet of airplanes provided by the government. Saigon has also allotted each candidate $50,000 from a special election fund to help cover expenses (though hardly enough to conduct a national campaign), has allotted each candidate an equal number of posters and will also give each campaigner equal time on radio...
...squat Neapolitan hustler. Occasionally, someone in the cast does lend an air of authenticity, notably Ralph Meeker as Moran and David Canary as a flat-faced machine gunner who seems to have stepped out of a lineup onto the set. But all too often the period costumes and a fleet of chuffing phaetons, landaus and flivvers look like the only genuine articles on view...
...beginning. Last year Flying Tiger increased its revenues by 53% to $86 million, while multiplying its profits nearly threefold to $12.1 million. What makes the record all the more impressive is the fact that the airline was founded in 1945 on an investment of $180,000 and a rickety fleet of eight Budd Conestogas. Briefly called the National Skyway Freight Corp., it took its subsequent name-and many of its top personnel-from the legendary Flying Tigers, volunteer American pilots who flew for China early in World War II. Disbanded as a unit 25 years ago last week, most...
...sooner had the story appeared than Wilson accused the Express of ignoring two "D Notices"-government memorandums requesting newspapers not to publish specific items of secret information in the interests of national security. Nonsense, replied Express Editor Derek Marks, there was no D Notice involved. Every paper on Fleet Street echoed his scorn...