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...peak hours, between 5 and 9 p.m., some 200 planes from all over the world home in on New York's Kennedy International Airport. American Airlines' Flight 6, four hours and 25 minutes out of Los Angeles with 80 passengers aboard, was only two miles from touchdown when the runway lights dimmed and disappeared. Turning toward the ocean, Captain Gus Konz lost radio contact with the tower, which by that time was operating on fast-fading emergency power. Unable to contact Kennedy, Konz pointed the nose of the 248,000-lb. plane westward and minutes later set down at Newark...
With bulldozers and dynamite, they have moved mountains of sand, built some 40 miles of road, helped construct a 10,000-ft. runway from which the first jets will blast off against the enemy next month (see map). Ammo depots, a ten-tank fuel dump with a capacity of 230,000 gal., and a T-pier are all under construction; next month a floating 350-ft. De Long pier will be towed in from Charleston...
...Tents. Around South Viet Nam's four present jet fields-Danang, Chu Lai, Bien Hoa and Saigon-are clustered most of the rest of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam. On the "hot pads" at the runway ends of each stand the silver planes, bombs aboard, on phased alert: the first wave is on five-minute call, the next on 15-minute call, then a group on 30-minute call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets...
They were lovely hangers for any dress. Baroness Fiona Thyssen slinked down the runway in harlequin pants by Galitzine. Princess Luciano Pignatelli drifted by in Valentino's feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally...
...clearing just north of An Khe on Route 19, deep in the Viet Cong-infested highlands. Using only machetes to clear the copse so as to keep the sod in place, the Americans hacked out a gigantic 3,000-ft. by 4,000-ft. helipad, a 4,000-ft. runway, and bivouac space for no fewer than...