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...stamp is clearly visible on the 83rd Detachment at Saigon's Tanson-hut airbase. Like their commander, the 83rd's pilots wear black flying suits with purple scarves. They call themselves Than Phong ("divine wind," the translation of the Japanese "kamikaze" of World War II). Boss of the 83rd is Hanoi-born Major Luu Kim Cuong, at 32 a 13-year veteran of Viet Nam's long war, and a confidant of Ky's. Cuong has logged more than 8,500 flying hours, taught himself to fly the Skyraider in a mere three days. He flew...
Rough Going. No exceptions are English Actor Terence Stamp, 25, and Actress Samantha Eggar, 25, the two-man cast of Wyler's latest Columbia film, The Collector. Wyler picked them after reading John Fowles's bestselling psychodrama, the story of a repressed lower-class bank clerk (and butterfly collector) who wins the football pool, buys a mansion, then kidnaps a pretty art student and keeps her in the basement for two months while he vainly tries to win her over and she as vainly tries to escape. "I found I couldn't put the book down," Wyler...
Beards of a feather? Not really. The beard on the new Cuban 13-centavo stamp belonged not to Fidel but to Abraham Lincoln, whose likeness appeared below his famous admonition: "Se puede engahar a todo el pueblo parte del tiempo, se puede engahar a parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no se puede engahar a todo el pueblo todo el tiempo." The lines-more familiar to Americans as "You may fool all of the people some of the time," etc.-were obviously meant to refer to the Yanquis. Cubans may just possibly apply them to someone else...
Died. Gordon Persons, 63, reform-minded Alabama Governor from 1951 to 1955, who in July 1954 put notorious Phenix City under martial rule after his candidate for attorney general, Albert Patterson, was murdered for pledging to stamp out vice, spent the rest of his term cleaning up the town; of a heart attack; in Montgomery...
Following Gantt was Prosecutor Gamble, who warned against "anarchy," urged that the jurors refuse to "put our stamp of approval on this kind of lawlessness." Said Gamble: "I don't agree with the purpose of this woman. But gentlemen, she was here, and she had a right to be here, and she had a right to be here without being killed. This was a coldblooded, middle-of-the-night killing that you cannot overlook. You've got to face...