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...exercise, which began Feb. 23 and ends this week, employed an armada of 60 ships, including three aircraft carriers, 520 Marine and Navy planes and helicopters, 3,200 motor vehicles; 66 tanks, 96 artillery pieces, 20,000 sailors and 25,000 marines, among whom were 5,000 playing the part of Lancelotian natives-men and women-and infiltrators from Merlin...
...their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night before-only the motor was gone...
Married. Henry Ford II, 47, board chairman of Ford Motor Co.; and Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, 35, stylish blonde Italian divorcee with whom he has been keeping company since separating from his first wife, Anne McDonnell, in 1963 (they divorced last February); in a civil ceremony; at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., after which they immediately flew off to Europe...
Beneath starlit skies in perfect flying weather, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 poised for takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport. Aboard the four-motor DC-7B-a piston-driven model that Eastern is phasing out-were 79 passengers and a crew of five. Airport, control-tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...
...winter wilderness, once the province of a few hardy sportsmen, now opens up to even the flabbiest American with the newest things in snow-gadgetry. The snowmobile is a motor scooter on skis and can go where skiers fear to tread, and without risk of torn ligaments and strained muscles. It is, in fact, ideal for the man who prefers to get his thrills sitting down...