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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred helicopter missions in Viet Nam, was inside Plei Me when it was attacked by the North Vietnamese, and had several close scrapes 2½ years ago during the Congo fighting. But this, he concluded, topped all his previous experiences: "Sergeant Brown's courage and professional skill kept us alive and me sane that night. After the rescue helicopter had finally lifted us to safety next morning, I found myself singing above the engine's roar like one of the Animals, 'We gotta get out of this place...
Race as a Crutch. Though Harry Truman ordered the military services desegregated in 1948, the Korean War found Negroes still serving in all-black outfits, or else in behind-the-lines noncombat roles. White officers-particularly in the Navy and Marine Corps-stubbornly kept Negroes out of top command positions...
...undergone a sea change of spirit. He obviously misses the simple machines of his youth, when "flying was an art which required the use of the body and all its senses," when the pilot sitting in an open cockpit "felt the freshness of rain, and pulling stubborn engines through kept his muscles in condition." In this new age, Lindbergh wrote, "I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines . . . the immortal viewpoint of the higher air ... But I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve...
...demands were almost identical to the ones that Peking last December served on Lisbon to force the Portuguese to surrender de facto control of Macao to local Maoists. The British decided to be tough. Hong Kong's 10,000 well-disciplined police kept the mass of the rioters confined to two areas in Kowloon, arrested more than 400. Whitehall refused to dignify the Red Chinese demands with an answer. Instead, the British Commonwealth Office pledged that law and order would be maintained in the colony. Faced with this determination, Peking seemed to back off a bit. At week...
Jumping the Traffic. No matter how high the quality of the editorial product, costs must be kept down, the work force reduced, union restrictions eliminated, production fully automated. "One thing you've got to have is a modern plant," says Vincent Manno, the New York newspaper broker who brought Hearst, Howard and Whitney together for the ill-fated W.J.T. merger. "You can't spend less than $25 million and have the kind of plant necessary to put out a paper in the city of New York. A fully automated plant contemplates that the unions would permit...