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Byzantine Obstruction. The trickle of food that has managed to penetrate Nigerian lines to reach the Ibos has mostly landed aboard a fleet of Super-Constellations owned by a German-American entrepreneur named Hank Warton, who is also Ojukwu's major gunrunner. Both Caritas, the international Catholic relief organization, and the International Red Cross have paid for his services (cost of a round-trip flight: up to $25,000), simply because it was the only way to get medicine and food to Biafra. Some flights were temporarily suspended by bad weather and the Nigerians' radar-directed antiaircraft fire, but last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGERIA'S CIVIL WAR: HATE, HUNGER AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unoffical headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of 'a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Conversation in a L.I. Bar With a Soldier of Fortune | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...hank of hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1968 | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...Williams match was won on the 17th hole of the last match of the day, when Harvard's seventh man Joe Tibbetts topped Hank Banger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Bag Tri-Meet; Jar Williams and B.C. | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

...mustache and goatee. Sybil Burton Christopher reckons that at least half of the popular Pancho Villa or Zapata mustaches seen in her Manhattan discotheque, Arthur, are phonies. Narcotics agents regard hoked-up hairiness as an invaluable aid in infiltrating hippie drug circles, and servicemen feel an added hank of hair increases chances that the weekend pass will be completed. According to one mother, her son and all his friends at Fort Sill, Okla., have ordered mustaches and beards by mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Beards, Boards & Brushes | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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