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...unsettling second U.S. Navy Lieut. John B. Barnes thought that the laws of aerodynamics had suddenly been repealed. There he was, climbing away from the runway at Italy's Capodichino Airport, and on each side of him the wing of his flashy new F8U Crusader jet was turned upright 6½ feet from the tips-as if parked on a cramped carrier deck. Why the tower had cleared him for take-off and how his plane had staggered into the air with the outboard wing panels folded up, he could not say. But there was no time to speculate...
...chartered Viscount skidded to a stop on the sodden runway of Otis Air Force Base, and Lyndon Johnson stepped out, looking like a king-sized Martian in a ten-gallon hat. "I've come to see my leader," he announced. A waiting Air Force staff car whisked him to Hyannisport, 15 miles away. That night, while Caroline Kennedy's tiny grey kitten swatted night bugs on the front stoop, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson held their first grand-strategy meeting since they parted company in Los Angeles, the victorious nominees on a strong and strange Democratic ticket...
Less than 24 hours after the U.N. Security Council in Manhattan voted to send troops and aid to the beleaguered Congo, the first silver-bodied, red-tailed Hercules plane whined off the runway of the U.S. Air Station at Chateauroux in southern France. At Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina and at Dover Base in Delaware, ponderous Globemasters lumbered into the air. By last week 132 U.S. transport planes were flying across half the world in the vast United Nations airlift to and from the Congo...
...remarkable Lockheed C-130 Hercules cruises at 350 m.p.h., carries 92 passengers, takes less runway than even a DC-4 and, at a pinch, can get in and out of airstrips only 2,000 ft. long. It has self-contained air starters for its turboprop engines and therefore does not need ground power-a vital factor in equipment-short Congo. Merritt's men sleep when and where they can-in hangars, machine shops, the planes themselves. They have been joyfully received in the Congo, and ground personnel as well as Congolese volunteers help in the unloading without pay. There...
...meet's most dramatic moment was its very last. Ever since a bad leg kept him off the 1956 Olympic squad, Pole Vaulter Don Bragg, 29, had pointed for the 1960 team. At Palo Alto, Bragg sprinted down the runway, set his pole, hauled hard with his weight lifter's arms, and soared over the bar at 15 ft. 9¼ in. to break by an inch the world record of Marine Bob Gutowski. Then started one of the wildest victory dances in track history. Bellowing with delight, Bragg tossed wood shavings in the air, waved his arms...