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...Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple of artillery battalions, and eight Hawker Hunter jets...
...east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset, neither side had any stomach for killing: most of the gunfire was purposely aimed high. Government tanks cleared street after street, carefully hosing them with .50-cal. machine-gun fire as they moved forward. Government spotter planes circled the rebel area, dropping leaflets that announced the appointment of General Huynh Van Cao as I Corps commander-the fourth in that thankless role since March-and demanding loyalty. Rebel gunners cut loose at the planes, and put bullets into an American L19 on reconnaissance, forcing it to make...
...York lore, Orin took up the family's anti-Tammany tradition last fall when he ran against the organization in a primary for the Democratic nomination as comptroller and came in second. Though he lost a leg in World War II while serving as an artillery-spotter pilot, Orin is hyperactive in a multiplicity of good works, ranging from civil rights to rehabilitation of the physically handicapped, stumped seven gallant miles on crutches in the Selma-Montgomery march last spring. A former history professor and publisher of small newspapers, Lehman is now chairman of a group of radio stations...
...guns of the U.S. Navy. Into range at flank speed loped the U.S. destroyer O'Brien, spitting rapid-fire salvos from its six main battery guns at 1½ tons a minute. "I've got Veecee hanging by their toes from my barbed wire," radioed a spotter. "I'm gonna put down the radio and grab my rifle." No need. By noon the Reds had faded away-leaving 175 dead behind them...
...hostelry the Broadmoor. Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!", the rate on the bridal suite immediately was tripled, and the arriving oil-rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession...