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Then come the press shows and the public showings, with society and show business well represented. At Alexander's, half the third floor of the new store at 58th Street and Lexington Avenue will be roped off and a U-shaped runway erected. Two models will promenade at the same time, one wearing the original, the other the copy...
...runway, take off within 377 ft. One prototype model landed easily on a downtown Brussels street...
...passenger on the turboprop wheeling out to the runway at Paris' Orly Airport could hardly believe his eyes. As the cockpit door briefly opened, he had got a glimpse of the crew up front. There beside the pilot sat a good-looking blonde. It was Jacqueline Dubut's debut as France's first lady pilot on a scheduled airline...
...barracks area, destroying three buildings. "You could hear the shrapnel hitting the roof," said an airman. "Then one landed on the barracks next to us like 60,000 garbage cans hitting the floor." When the sun rose, aircraft and barracks were still smoldering. Two big craters pocked the west runway, and the east runway was scattered with debris from wrecked aircraft. In all, eleven planes-Phantoms, Crusaders and C-130 transports-were destroyed and 31 damaged. Besides the dead, 173 people were wounded...
There is no longer much fear that more U.S. troops would send the fragile South Vietnamese economy into an unmanageable inflationary spiral. Meanwhile the big U.S. construction projects, with their heavy demands on local labor and materials, have been leveling off. Storage facilities and a runway have been completed at Cam Ranh Bay, for example, and new docks have been put into operation along the Saigon River near the capital, ending what was once a serious logistic logjam...