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...mile "supply corridor from the Cambodian frontier to the province of Phuoc Thanh. As the first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away before the massive sweep...
Around small cardboard signs reading "Right Wing," "Left Wing" and "Tail," a group of purposeful experts are arranging what is left of the American Airlines' Boeing 707 that crashed on take-off into Jamaica Bay, killing all 95 aboard (TIME. March...
...biggest chunk is an 8-ft. by 10-ft. section of the tail. Yet the skilled crash detectives of the U.S. Government's Civil Aeronautics Board can identify and check every tiny fragment. Out of the grim jigsaw puzzle, they will slowly and carefully extract the "probable cause" of the accident. Then other 707s, forewarned and perhaps modified, may be saved from making plunging turns into disaster...
...Korean war, Glenn flew F9F5 Panther jets, again on ground-support missions. After going on several missions with Glenn, Ted Williams, the Red Sox leftfielder recalled to duty as a Marine pilot, declared flatly: "The man is crazy," Says Lieut. Colonel Edward Lovette: "We called Glenn ol' magnet tail because his plane was hit so many times in combat...
...Beauvoir once gave it a formal reading under Albert Camus' direction in Paris). Its title, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue, comes out Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt in German, which more or less means "How to Catch a Wish by the Tail." Described as a surrealistic carnival revue, Artist Picasso's play catches little else. Performed by twelve young actors, it is a disheveled stream of Freudian consciousness, generally pouring from a poet called Plumpfoot whom women cannot resist...