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Less than 48 hours later, as Navy Phantom and Skyhawk jets lined up for morning bombing missions against the North, the Forrestal's fire bells sounded again, and the pilot's worst fears were realized. A fuel tank fell from the wing of an A-4 Skyhawk and ruptured, spilling gas onto a sizzling steam catapult. Fanned by 35-mile-an-hour gusts, fireballs leaped to other fully loaded planes, trapping the pilots inside. As bombs and rockets exploded on the 1,000-ft.-long flight deck, the flames spread to the hangar deck far below. Engulfed...
...Marines in Viet Nam and a major launching pad for the air war on the Communist North. In scarcely more than five minutes, the Communists fired at least 50 122-mm. rockets, dropping them among the parked planes with pinpoint accuracy. Several Air Force 4-FC Phantoms and Marine F-8 fighter-bombers, caught fully fueled and with their bomb racks loaded, were blown high into the air by the explosions. One rocket crashed into an ammo dump, exploding the 500-and 750-lb. bombs in a giant fireball that was visible many miles away. Five base firemen were killed...
...raged into the 1920s, this industrial flower was cut down; the Russian workers who had manned the barricades "physically and politically faded out." On the other hand, despite famine and purges, the bourgeois peasantry "survived in the tangible realities of rural life [and] the socialist revolution was like a phantom suspended in a void...
...museum's curator, Kynaston McShine, who selected the paintings, unpretentiously bills his exhibit as an "airy, informal, summer exhibition of big, beautiful paintings." The show includes both abstract and representational art. Veteran Abstractionist Gene Davis sets the eye dancing in Phantom Tattoo with a 10-ft. by 19-ft. cascade of multicolored awning stripes. Ellsworth Kelly does three giant, economy-size rectangles of flat color (one each of red, yellow and blue) covering 89 sq. ft. Alfred Jensen's four-paneled impasto consists of dozens of big squares, little squares, houndstooth checks, checkerboards and signal flags...
...found himself possessed by this "benevolent phantom," because of a tiny part of her work, unpublished and unknown in her time. It is her occasional private poetry, addressed to her family. When she wrote to them, the woman could take over...