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...recent cover story about the American fighting man in Viet Nam (April 23), an admirable member of the gallery of combatants was "Mac the Fac" - Air Force Major William W. McAllister, 36, a "forward air controller" who sought out Viet Cong troops and installations in his toylike L19 spotter plane...
MAJOR WILLIAM W. MCALLISTER, 36, is an Air Force careerman who, in his eleven months in Viet Nam, has become a legend as "Mac the Fac" (for "forward air controller"), flying a toylike L19 spotter plane and seeking out Viet Cong troops and installations. McAllister used to be a hot jet fighter pilot, won a D.F.C. in Korea. Now he flies slower, but has more...
...filthy beast is Gary Grant, somewhat whimsically cast as a Pacific island beach bum. World War II has begun, and Grant greets it with the disdain he might ordinarily show for a stale canape. Nevertheless, Australian Navy Commander Trevor Howard tricks him into a position as a plane spotter (code designation: Mother Goose) on a remote islet near New Guinea. Soon he has to rescue Caron and her seven giggling schoolgirl charges, who have fled the French consulate school at Rabaul...
...Packard roadster may be a ruinously expensive way of getting down to the supermarket. But esthetics have nothing to do with the new trend in the antique trade. Its name is "junk." True, it has to be out-of-the-ordinary junk. But to the expert spotter, every attic and old barn in the U.S. is a potential treasure-trove of salable detritus. The technique is summed up by a roadside secondhand store south of Santa Rosa, Calif., which advertises with unconscious wit: WE BUY JUNK. WE SELL ANTIQUES...
Open Flanks. From a U.S. Army pilot who was flying a spotter plane over the scene came a chilling account of Viet Cong proficiency. According to Sergeant Ben Munsey of Manchester, N.H., the guerrillas were so well hidden that he flew 30 feet over their heads without seeing them. "Suddenly the foliage seemed to get up and run, revealing Viet Cong in black pajamas with camouflaged helmets running across soggy paddies," said Munsey. In five minutes the Viet Cong dashed nearly 1,100 yards, cut off the road. The army troops dispersed into a swamp, but as they did, another...