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...part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER MECKIE I. KEYS, 33, is a greying, 16-year Army veteran from St. Petersburg, Fla., where his wife and five children live. Twelve years ago, as a 1st sergeant in a tank battalion, Keys decided to move from turret to cockpit, enrolled in the Army's aviation school. Today he flies a lumbering Caribou transport out of Vungtau on the South China Sea, 40 miles southeast of Saigon...
...Minh, now President of North Viet Nam, then swung to the right, served briefly as a public-relations man for General Nguyen Khanh after Khanh seized power a year ago. One day last week, troops appeared in the streets of Saigon, and Colonel Thao popped out of a tank turret, explaining: "This operation is to expel Nguyen Khanh from the government." With Thao was Catholic ex-General Lam Van Phat, who led an abortive September "coupette" and had been on the lam ever since...
...CLOCK HIGH (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). While a stowaway on a bomber, a young clerk (Brandon de Wilde) is forced to operate the turret...
...mere exporter of raw materials. Nearly 20% of Kirloskar's diesels are sold abroad, from West Germany to California, and from the West Indies to the Persian Gulf. Kirloskar plants also turn out a neatly complementary array of products that range from air compressors to vertical turret lathes, from sluice valves to torque converters. But Kirloskar is proudest of his contribution to the revolution in farm methods that food-shy India so badly needs. Although four-fifths of the Indian peasant-farmers still use wooden plows, Kirloskar is busy selling them steel ones at enticingly low prices...