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...around their patient, Ike's railroad arrival was accomplished under maximum security. Troops with fixed bayonets were stationed at 20-yard intervals along the length of the train to keep spectators away as he was carried to an ambulance. Outside the station a helicopter, heavily insulated against the roar of its rotors, picked up the former President and in eleven minutes deposited him at the hospital twelve miles away. When he got to Walter Reed, Ike said he was "feeling fine," later in the week had a Thanksgiving dinner with his family that included turkey, giblet gravy, candied sweet...
Hose trucks, hook-and-ladders, pumping wagons, and 200 evacuated Quincy students fill DeWolfe St. as thirty-foot flames roar through a broken sixth-floor window...
Isabel's plan was to stir a popular up roar on Perón's "Loyalty Day" by playing an emotional tape-recorded message from el líder. Once in Buenos Aires she could see for herself the signs of Peronista change. There were almost no Loyalty Day posters. Three full days elapsed before the top Peronista politicians and labor leaders got around to calling on her. What had not changed were the hatreds engendered by the mere mention of Perón's name. For three nights, riots between Peronistas and anti-Peronistas erupted outside...
...dogged Indians. Back on the set, he found even such old pros as Major, the 500-lb. lion, were acting up. When Major refused to roar on cue, his trainer jabbed him in the nose with a long pole. No luck. Director Robert Day then ordered a native crewman to sneak up from behind and prod Major's rump. The Brazilian blanched and declined-until he was given an on-the-spot salary hike. Later on, Major shifted from depressive to manic, escaped during a Rio zoo take, sent visitors scrambling for their lives as he rambled free...
...Gatling-type guns -each a fascine of six machine-gun barrels. In the time it takes to say "puff," the Dragon can spit 300 bullets at Viet Cong on the ground. "It's a solid bar of fire," explains a U.S. officer, "and the noise is a terrible roar." The Lightning Bug is a UH-1B helicopter fitted with seven brilliant landing lights. It goes sampan hunting at night along Viet Cong rivers or canals. Antipeople peepers include Tipsy 33, a ground-surveillance radar first used by the marines along their Danang perimeter. By the end of this year...