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...transport, the world's biggest plane, lumbered off the runway at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airbase, carrying 243 Vietnamese orphans destined for adoption in the U.S. and 62 adults. The children were the first to leave Viet Nam in an official and well-intentioned American program to evacuate 2,000 orphans and bring them to the U.S. Minutes after takeoff, the pilot radioed that his rear loading ramp was defective; he had lost control of his elevators, rudders arid flaps. Seven miles out of Saigon, he made a sweeping turn and headed back to Tan Son Nhut...
...miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport, fell into rebel hands for the third time since the start of the offensive. That put the airfield within range of the highly accurate U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers that the rebels have captured. Constant shelling of the runway in mid-March forced the U.S. to suspend cargo flights for two days. With the insurgents once again zeroed in on the airport, it may be impossible for the U.S. to keep the supply line open...
...first plane out of the city, the priority flight, was reserved for Americans - the consular staff, reporters and other civilians - along with a few favored Vietnamese families. As the plane lifted off the runway in a steep, powerful climb, there was a strange sense of irreversible change. These evacuees were among the last Americans to leave Danang, finally ending a presence that had once symbolized America's involvement in Indochina. There was a powerful sense of tragedy too: they were leaving behind not a people grateful for the years of American sacrifice in Viet Nam but a people feeling...
...while working for De la Renta. Delighted, Mrs. Ford selected twelve outfits from Capraro's regular spring line and also asked him to create five gowns for state dinners, using fabrics that the President had brought home from Japan. "There are some clothes that look great on the runway, but you can't wear them," explains Betty Ford. "Albert's clothes are things women can really wear. They are practical, but they are pretty and very feminine...
...show runs against The Wonderful World of Disney in the 7:30 slot on Sunday night, and there is something wackily inspired about this amusing little coincidence that the CBS programmers have arranged. Just standing there on her runway, half-clad in one of the twelve to 15 costumes Cher Sarkesian Bono wears out every broadcast hour, she inspires more -and infinitely richer-fantasies than all the plastics of Disneyland. Indeed, it is barely possible that Cher in Cher may -with a little help from the many shrewd friends who so elaborately package her each week-redefine that grand...