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Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...
...Prime Minister has never been a man to sit long behind a desk. For three whirlwind weeks before the elections (which would last for almost three weeks) he swept across the nation, traveling by jeep, river steamer, sky-blue Cadillac, and his own Russian Ilyushin plane Messenger of the Clouds (the gift of Bulganin and Khrushchev) to address crowds that sometimes numbered...
...Castro, Reporter Matthews played two roles. For the trip by car from Havana to eastern Oriente province, Matthews and his wife Nancie were "tourists"; at roadblocks, guards waved them on with friendly smiles. Leaving Nancie in the home of some Castro sympathizers, Matthews then rode in a rebel jeep deeper into the cane country around the range as "an American sugar planter who could not speak a word of Spanish," dressed "for a fishing trip"-which proved convincing to patrolling troops. The reporter, with escorts loyal to Castro, reached the foothills at midnight, slithered on afoot. At dawn, through whistled...
GERMAN PLANEMAKERS are getting back into military aircraft business, have just delivered first West German-built plane to country's new Luftwaffe. It is a single-engine Dornier Do 27 "air jeep" reconnaissance ship, first of a 469-plane order. First big foreign contracts are being let out by German armed forces. British and U.S. military suppliers will each get about $300 million in orders, France about $100 million...
Gone from the Nazis. In World War II Jock Whitney was a public-relations and liaison officer (colonel) in the Air Corps, an agreeable berth that was disrupted one day during the invasion of Southern France when he headed his jeep beyond the American positions and got captured. When the Nazis packed him off north in a boxcar along lines that the Allies were bombing, coolheaded Jock Whitney regaled his fellow P.W.s with a running commentary-"Now they're peeling off to come in! God, it's lovely! Now the first one is leveling off!" During...