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...equipment, as well as side-looking radar, all linked to the aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle tracks around a supposedly downed bridge. "It's all a battle of wits...
...road-building program and a steadily expanding network of airfields, the archaeological digs of Yucatan, the baroque colonial Spanish cities and the splendid beaches are now only a few hours' drive or flight apart. Archaeological buffs, for instance, land in modern turboprops on the recently completed crushed-limestone runway beside the ruined temples of Chichen Itza. And in Mexico City (called simply Mexico by most Mexicans), workers labor round the clock, topping off new big-city hotels and readying the Olympic facilities...
...Britten-Norman Ltd. seems almost an anachronism. The airstrip at the company's plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...
...relief force of 30,000 Marines, Army troopers and South Vietnamese soldiers. The relief columns advanced down National Route 9 to ward Khe Sanh almost without opposition; they were accompanied by heliborne troopers, who were the first to reach the camp, landing on Khe Sanh's pocked runway. Thus, after 76 harrowing days, the siege of Khe Sanh last week came to an ironic end. What had loomed as the great set-piece battle, a la Dienbienphu, of the entire war-the ultimate test of Hanoi's military menace and the grand symbol of U.S. determination-dissolved...
...collection of 22 pieces copied from his spring and summer show. The lift-off was phenomenal. Some of the originals in fact, never made it to the show; Mrs. Alan Jay Lerner made off with a $1,000 caped white dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item too special for mass reproduction: Valentino...