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Getting Behind. Son of Major General Robert Olds, an airpower pioneer along with Billy Mitchell, Olds grew up in airplanes, flew 107 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs against the Luftwaffe. Olds finds dogfighting little changed from World War II. "The main idea is still to get behind him instead of letting him get behind you. The increased speed requires much faster thinking, and the other big difference is weaponry. It was practically eyeball to eyeball with the machine guns in World War II. We can fire our missiles from 1½ to two miles away, though...
President Lyndon Johnson went to Canada to talk over the situation with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, after appearing on nationwide TV to warn that the situation was potentially disastrous. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a visit to Washington because of the crisis, but Foreign Minister George Brown flew off to Moscow to talk it over with the Russians ("What could he possibly do?" sarcastically asked London's Labor-leaning Daily Mirror). The French Cabinet, after an all-day session with Charles de Gaulle, decided that it might be a good idea if all four major powers pitched...
Perhaps the most ingenuous attempt to find a solution was made by United Nations Secretary General U Thant, who flew off to Cairo on short notice to chat with Nasser. After running the gauntlet of workers chanting "God is great, long live Nasser, Egypt will win!" and being forced to cool his heels for 24 hours at Cairo's Nile Hilton, Thant finally got to see Nasser at a four-hour "working dinner," at which he mostly listened. He accomplished little, and returned a day earlier than planned to the U.N., where he handed the Security Council an unremarkable...
...Haiphong, however, is the steady stream of information that flows into Hanoi about the more routine daily destruction wreaked by U.S. planes on practically anything that moves or looks important in North Viet Nam. Last week U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and carrier-based Navy planes flew some 600 missions over the North...
...thought that the only way to live was to live selfishly." Ah, but that was before Hollywood's newest starlet sensation, Gayle Hunnicutt, 23, came along to make a shambles of what David calls "my inner defenses." Not that it was a blitz, mind you. In February, they flew to Las Vegas with marriage on their minds, then had a tiff and David buzzed off to Turkey to film Charge of the Light Brigade. That was the last charge, apparently, for he soon desolately wired her to follow-and now from Ankara comes word that the sensational couple will...