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...Navy Captain James Stockdale never broke. Asked for information about U.S. ships, he drew a picture of an aircraft carrier with a swimming pool and 300-ft. keel. Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain III once listed the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers as the members of his squadron...
...last U.S. unit still engaged in combat in Viet Nam when the cease-fire came was Marine Air Group 12-two squadrons of Sky hawk fighter-bombers flying out of Bien Hoa, 14 miles northeast of Saigon. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott visited the squadron on its final day in action. His report...
Such ports are essential to the Soviets because their Mediterranean squadron, like the Sixth Fleet, is a permanent strategic force, not merely a factor in the Egypt-Israel confrontation. Thus if Moscow allows the fleet to be displaced, the Russians would lose face-and power-everywhere in the Mediterranean...
...letters have been pouring into Fuji's Düsseldorf office at the rate of 20 a day asking for reprints of the ad, which shows Gerd on an Ibiza beach over the caption, "Take a picture of your sunshine in the sunshine." A German air force squadron at Sobernheim has requested 30 blowups, and Fuji's ad agency has printed 10,000 posters, which it is selling for $3.11 apiece. A record company has asked Gerd to make a 45 r.p.m. single, explaining that it does not matter whether she can sing, as long as her picture...
...sympathetically. The wronged heroes of The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes and now Frenzy are trapped by histories of international war and British impotence. The first two innocents were caught up in pre-World War II subterfuge; Dick Blainey of Frenzy is a ripe Jimmy Porter figure, an RAF squadron leader (when could he have flown--during Suez?) unable to rise successfully on the rungs of the Welfare State...