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...part of that show, three dozen F-100 fighters sped off their home runways at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico on the 5,200-mile flight to Torrejon, Spain, then the 3,100-mile leg to Dezful, Iran, with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various...
...sunset, after two hours of hair-raising sightseeing, Johnson sped to a lonely granite knob that overlooks miles of ranchland. Suddenly meditative, he gazed at the stunning panorama before him. "Look at that sky," he said. "Why would anyone want to leave here and go back and fight...
...American AID officer in Dinh Tuong province, surveyed with satisfaction the peasants on either side peacefully tilling fields of green beans, tomatoes, melons. He waved at Vietnamese small fry, moonfaced boys and graceful schoolgirls in black sateen pants, who broke into excited smiles as the truck sped by and called out in English "hello hello" and "okay okay...
From the Aegean island of Tenos, Greece's Lourdes, a sacred, jewel-encrusted ikon of the Virgin Mary, which is believed to work miracles, was sped by naval destroyer and limousine to the King's sickroom. Briefly Paul rallied...
...these individual performances, important as they were to the Crimson cause, all faded in the shadow of a world record performance in the 600-yard run by Yale's Wendell Mottley. The senior from Trinidad outdistanced his foes from the starting gun as he sped to the finish...