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Suspicious Ladder. Each Phantom carries anywhere from three to nine cameras, including infra-red equipment, as well as side-looking radar, all linked to the aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle...
Aria da Capo (literal translation: song from the top of the head.) by Edna St. Vincent Millary trifles elegantly around the theme of deceit--and so succeeds in shocking. Peopled by the likes of the menacing Colthurnus (David Palmer) the phantom prompter of the play-within-the-play and the stock, intuitively and irrepressibly daft Pierrot and Columbine figures, played by Jeffrey Blum and Lorraine James, of the play-without-the-play, the production seemed to slow down irreparably midway through. But Dean Ahmed, directing, manages to frame an unexpected climax to end the play on a note of crotchety...
...provide faster planes. Right now, his air force has 300 fighters, mostly F-86 Sabre jets, compared with North Korea's 450 fighters, most of which are MIG-15s and MIG-17s, with a sprinkling of MIG-21s. While South Korea awaits a promised squadron of Phantom F-4Cs, the U.S. has rushed 230 of its own fighter-bombers-mostly Phantoms and F106 Delta Darts-to five South Korean bases, expanded its air force personnel in South Korea from 5,000 to 7,000 and established an advance base of the U.S. Fifth Air Force at Osan...
Greed's tempermental director Erich von Stroheim, known when acting as "the man you love to hate," consistently made films Paramount considered too long and too morbid. The Merry-Go-Round was taken away from him and completed by Rupert Julian (The Phantom of the Opera), and no one knows how much was shot by Stroheim; The Wedding March, originally almost four hours, was halved, the second half, Honey-moon, never released and probably non-existent...
...casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact that they do not patrol means that Khe Sanh's original purpose-to interdict enemy infiltration-has been abandoned. As the tension builds, Marines manning the misty perimeter, their eyes wet with straining, sometimes begin to imagine phantom attackers coming through the gathering dusk...