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Lodge displayed a radar map showing that the 6-29 carrying eleven of the imprisoned flyers had been attacked by twelve enemy fighters near the North Korean town of Sonchon, some 15 miles south of the Yalu. Said Lodge: "We do not know where it dropped, but we do know where it was attacked...
America's defenses against this nightmarish-but very real-possibility are centered in the pleasant resort town of Colorado Springs. There, in a two-story blockhouse, grey and windowless, is a huge Plexiglas map on which the position of any strange plane sighted anywhere over North America is immediately plotted. Within two minutes, two jet interceptors scramble skyward with orders to identify the unknown aircraft-or shoot it down...
Fifteen Seconds to Alaska. Reports of every unidentified aircraft spotted over North America flash through the Air Defense network to the blockhouse in Colorado Springs, General Chidlaw's command post. On the great Plexiglas map, from six to a dozen unknown aircraft are being plotted at almost any time; as one is identified by the scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere...
...four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped off the map...
...disintegration of a beautiful young girl--is the obsession the motion picture industry has for itself. The Bad and the Beautiful said quite a bit about professional back-stabbing and the ruthless, compulsive people who produce films. Well, The Barefoot Contessa revisits the same territory, using the same map and plots no new landmarks of villainy. Along with the favorite theory of many top movie writers that nothing is quite so worth studying as the workings of their own industry are the corollaries that all these folk, with their immense fortunes, are just as miserable as the next fellow...