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Dodson's plane is unarmed. How, then, did he manage to chalk a Communist truck up to his credit? One day recently, while photographing the results of a bomb strike near Vinh, Dodson was flat-hatting along Highway 1, only 100 ft. off the deck, at 500 m.p.h...
...sever the supply lines that carry Hanoi's men and arms into the battle for South Viet Nam. After U.S. Thunderchiefs and Skyraiders cut the bridges at Thanhhoa, above Vinh and at Dong Phuong Thuong (see map), roving jets prowled highways and rail lines, shooting up trucks and destroying the North Vietnamese's scanty rolling stock. Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads...
Where? A number of future North Vietnamese targets stand out: Highway 12 to Laos, a newly built guerrilla turnpike; the military-industrial complex of Vinh, where the Hanoi railway ends; a big rail bridge at Tanhhoa, spanning a deep ravine; the Hanoi-Haiphong highway; petroleum storage tanks in Haiphong; the rail line entering North Viet Nam from China at Dongdang. As a heavily populated civilian center of 644,000, Hanoi is unlikely to be hit before the others, although the North Vietnamese do not seem sure of that: one eyewitness saw residents digging trenches in parks and gardens there last...
Pajama Party. Trained at Xuanmai, a base near Hanoi, the infiltrators are given a big sendoff party, sometimes attended by North Viet Nam's military boss (and victor of Dienbienphu), General Vo Nguyen Giap. They are trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...
...gold ring to fit onto each big toe, and then two tinkling anklets to snap into place. Finally the soles of her feet were painted red. But it was not just for kicks. Heiress Barbara Mutton, 51, a Protestant, was marrying Laotian Painter-Chemist Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak, 48, a Buddhist, and they were doing it his way. Babs had never tried a Buddhist ceremony, and so this time around it was a sari affair at her $1,500,000 estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. There were seven tiers to the wedding cake, not in honor of her seven...