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...American serviceman-the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman who has stood ready in countless spots around the world from the paddyfields of Viet Nam to the blue waters of the Caribbean to serve his country, and meanwhile acts with warmth and friendship as its most effective ambassador of people-to-people diplomacy...
...that crashed with seven other U.S. servicemen in a mountainous eastern province of Laos. Unable to walk without assistance, and barely able to talk, Bailey said that he had been locked alone in a "blackcell" for the past eleven months, was subjected to "continuous questioning." The only other U.S. serviceman released by the Pathet Lao was Sergeant Orville Ballenger, 28, a member of a U.S. Army team assigned to the Royal Laotian Army, who was captured with three other soldiers in April 1961 and had been kept in solitary imprisonment ever since. Luckiest of the prisoners, by their own accounts...
...Department has been at work on the project since last August, selecting films and preparing a sound track. Broger observed that Communist Target Youth is aimed at the typical serviceman, but added "if there is a demand for the film, it may be cleared for public...
...Flight 548 for Brussels counted all the types that have become so familiar to airline attendants at New York's Idlewild International Airport. There was the young man bound for Warsaw to the bedside of his cancer-ridden mother, the teen-age wife of a Europe-based serviceman making her first flight, the pregnant young wife of another overseas G.I., the middle-aged priest going to Brussels for a reunion with his parents, the tourists brimming with language books and visions of Notre Dame and Rimini, the comfortably tired Brussels businessman...
Ricketts sometimes chafes at the restrictions, however mild, of working for what is essentially a serviceman's newspaper. But such moods pass. Married to a Canadian-Nisei whom he met at a party, tooling around Tokyo in his crimson MG, demolishing a movie or some visiting star, reading with great pleasure the latest stack of scurrilous mail, Al Ricketts has everything he wants. Says he: "I'm doing a job I love in a town I love...