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...Seat Belts. The President's flying White House is rigged for the best in comfort and communications. The President himself usually takes off facing forward at a desk in his private compartment; at his side is an ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
...Shores of ... That night Burke stayed in his office, catnapping every now and then in a big leather sofa, speaking over single-sideband radio to Holloway and to the Sixth Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Charles R. ("Cat") Brown, swamping down coffee, sucking on his pipe, reading the red and yellow dispatches reporting the global deployment of the U.S. Navy. Morning found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements...
Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...