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...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
...make his landing with the help of GCA (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar landing system. By voice radio, the operator on the field furnished Pilot Hill with simple verbal instructions, and Hill brought his plane in for a perfect landing-even though the field was so fogbound that a jeep sent out to lead him to a hangar was unable to find...
Pajama Flight. Behind a jeep piloted by a wild Kashani follower named Shahban the Brainless, another crowd roared to the house of Mohammed Mossadegh. Shahban the Brainless rammed the jeep through Mossadegh's green iron gates. The Premier of Iran did not wait to see who was knocking. He bounded from his bed and scooted out the back door, to the nearby compound of the U.S. Point Four program. There he caught his breath, then scurried to the Majlis building. The incongruous, pajama-clad frame of the wrinkled Wizard of Persia burst into the middle of the closed session...
Brakeman Stöckli, thrown clear in midair, landed atop a parked U.S. jeep and escaped with minor injuries. Crewman Heiland suffered a broken leg and possible spinal injuries; Crewman Gartmann broke his right shoulder. Driver Endrich, a blond, 32-year-old Zurich salesman, his neck broken, was dead on .arrival at Garmisch hospital...
...Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...