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Sloping Earth Mound. In Manhattan, the problem was where to relocate the police stables, riding school and the indoor polo field once used by the elite socialites of National Guard Squadron A, since their former quarters in the 94th Street Armory were torn down to make way for a new junior high school. The obvious answer was Central Park, but New Yorkers have come to regard the park as sacrosanct, have fiercely resisted any infringement, including even the philanthropic offer of Huntington Hartford to build a terraced cafe in one corner. The solution, as proposed by the competition-winning architectural...
...steamed home for a well-earned five-month rest, the squadron left behind a handsome record. In 1,239 sorties, it had destroyed or damaged-among other targets-139 enemy barges and patrol boats, 86 trucks and three key bridges, and had knocked out one of North Viet Nam's most important thermal-power plants. Along the way, the squadron lost only two of its twelve planes. As Mandeville told his squadron when he took over early this year: "We don't need to blow our own horn-the results will show." And so they...
Newcomers or old hands, the women are frequent visitors to the front lines, where reaction to their presence is varied. When one of the women turned up at the headquarters of a Marine fighter squadron in the Mekong Delta, the C.O. gave her a curt order: "You'll wear fatigues all the time. We don't want women with legs down here." Out in the boondocks, another one of the girls was greeted by a battle-weary Army sergeant who asked quietly: "Will you please just say something? I haven't heard an American woman speak...
...Shafer, Scranton has scheduled 40 speeches, and Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has given him vigorous support. This week Bobby Kennedy will campaign for Shapp; Shafer will counter with Dwight Eisenhower, who will play host at Gettysburg to a reunion of Shafer's old PT boat squadron...
...Neighbors. China's air force and navy remain minuscule and primitive by big-power standards. Of the 2,600 military aircraft in China, only 300 are bombers (light, short-range Ilyushin 28s, at that), and modern fighter planes are in even shorter supply. China has only one squadron of MIG-21s (probably twelve or 15 aircraft), the only planes that can stand up to American fighters. The plague of China's air force is a shortage of fuel, which forces it to fly at only 70% of its normal operational capacity. As with the army, there has been...