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...Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took off for the first leg of an 11,700-mile flight...
...Ramp Scurriers...
...Casino stage-successor to the Howard where "Buffalo Bill" Cody, John Wilkes Booth and Gypsy Rose Lee performed for beyond a century--has been the scene of the most riotous productions in staid New England history. Across the Casino ramp have scurried some of the best-set headliners of latter day burlesque, in some of their least-dressed performances...
Pride of the Italian Alps is Sestriere (see color pages), a name relatively new to Americans. Its two circular hotels, La Torre and the Duchi d'Aosta, rear out of the snow like overgrown silos; the Duchi guest rooms are reached by a continuous ramp around a sunlit core, something like Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum with chambermaids. Both La Torre and the Duchi d'Aosta are moderately priced inns; their sister hotel at Sestriere, the Principi di Piemonte, ranks high in Europe's catégorie luxe, is decorated with expensive taste and has rates...
...nose is bloody. How long before its whole magnificent body is beaten to deformity? How long before the bright lands are dead lands?" Every Californian can cite his own pet example of the slurban blight. In San Francisco, the famed waterfront was threatened by a new elevated ramp until a group of aroused citizens forced the state to sus pend construction. In Sacramento, highway builders propose to split the city in two with a throughway that will require the demolition of several of the city's most cherished historical buildings, which happen to stand...