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...pilots, the missions were as routine as any ever are in the face of North Viet Nam's formidable air-defense system. The targets: the Yen Vien railroad center northeast of the capital, and Van Dien, a major vehicle-repair depot known in Pentagon parlance as the "secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...
Dimes and dollars, francs and yen are again swinging down to Rio and the rest of Brazil...
...deal is a special 14-to-21-day round-trip fare for groups of ten or more persons who need share no affinity other than a yen to fly to the same vacation spot at about one-half the normal rate. Under the group plan, for example, the New York-London round trip would cost $230 compared with the $399 off-season and the $484.50 summertime economy fares. Unlike Pan Am's $300 excursion fare, which does not apply on weekends or during peak summer weeks, the group fare would be good at all times on all transatlantic...
...contraband wife is $100,000 worth of woman like Claudia Cardinale, matters are urgent enough to enlist Lee Marvin as a former Rough Rider, Woody Strode as a cunning scout, Robert Ryan as a nail-hard ex-cavalryman, and Burt Lancaster as a passionate explosives expert with a yen for "100-proof whisky, 90-proof women and 14-karat gold...
...SHAMELESS OLD LADY. The heroine of this winsome French film is a cheeky septuagenarian who wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. In the title role, French Stage Star Sylvie, 81, develops a yen for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes, ends up spending 18 brief but glorious months of self-indulgence before death overtakes...