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Slowly the giant jet taxied into the darkness beyond the floodlit operations building at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. At the edge of a runway it paused, shuddered with the full power of its four jets, then roared into the starry Texas sky to begin a nonstop, 5,600-mile hop to West Germany. Thus, one balmy night last week, "Operation Big Lift" got under...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. A history professor (Arthur Hill) and his bitter half (Uta Hagen) mercilessly tell all the news that's not fit to print about each other. Playwright Albee's larger theme is the sterility of modern life, but it is the nonstop savagery between husband and wife that jolts playgoers...
Fidel Castro suddenly shut down all cable and telephone lines between Havana and the outside world for 24 hours last week and secretly hopped a giant Soviet TUH4 jet for a nonstop trip to Murmansk...
...slaughter raged unchecked, white children were evacuated from the city to a nearby Methodist mission. From neighboring Northern Rhodesia, blood was flown in to meet the needs of the Jadotville hospital, where doctors and nurses worked nonstop for more than 48 hours trying to patch up a steady stream of wounded and dying. Many victims were maimed beyond recognition. "A doctor lifted a bandage off one man's head," said a witness. "A large piece had been sliced out of his skull like a slice from an orange, and I could see his brain pulsating...
...flight tests until next month, but Northrop is already making a joint study with Lockheed to apply LFC to Lockheed's EUR-141 jet cargo plane. Project Manager Don Warner is sure that the sucking slots can increase a C-141's payload by 74% or its nonstop range...