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Usually, a military change of command is accompanied by the most poignant pomp and circumstance. Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs. Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO...
...Missing Helmet. Al White had indeed managed to escape in an ejection capsule that parachuted him to earth, where he walked away with only bruises. But his copilot, Air Force Major Carl S. Cross, 40, a Viet Nam veteran who was making his first checkout flight in the craft, inexplicably failed to get out. Down from 25,000 ft., followed by Cotton's T-38, the giant bomber plummeted like a felled eagle. It smashed belly-down into the Mojave Desert, exploding into a thousand pieces. The long, proud neck was broken off and hurled 50 yds.; the heat...
...miles away, the flaming, disintegrating F-104 slammed into the ground; Walker's shattered corpse was also inside his craft-minus his helmet, leading to speculation that he might have been killed as the B70 sheared through his canopy...
Breathing heavily and perspiring, Cernan soon saturated the atmosphere inside his space suit with more moisture than the suit's evaporator unit could handle. Moisture condensed and then froze on the cold plastic of his helmet visor, almost totally obscuring his vision. After increasing his oxygen flow in a vain attempt to clear his visor, Cernan continued to check out the AMU. But just before he was scheduled to emerge from the adapter and jet off into space, Commander Stafford reluctantly scrubbed the experiment. "No go for the AMU," he reported to Houston. "The pilot's fogged...
...what looked like a "dodgem" game, the track was filled with spinning, fishtailing, crashing racers. Axles and suspensions snapped, tires sailed through the air, spurts of flame from spilled fuel blossomed on the asphalt. Driver Arnie Knepper climbed from his wrecked Ford and examined a tire mark on his helmet#151;from a car that had flown over...