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...olive-drab, two-engined plane without markings or number swept in low and thundering over the Indonesian port of Balikpapan in Borneo. Bombs tumbled out from the opened bomb bay, and the British tanker, San Flaviano, erupted in a series of explosions that broke the vessel's back. An Indonesian corvette, anchored protectively at the harbor mouth, took a direct hit, burst into flames from stem to stern. The Royal Dutch Shell Co. hastily shut down its installations at Balikpapan, signaled oil tankers to clear the area...
...based: at the rebel stronghold of Menado in the Northern Celebes. But no one save the rebels themselves knew for certain where the small air fleet of four B-26s and two Mustang fighters had been purchased, or who were their pilots. Said a survivor of the tanker San Flaviano: "The plane came in mast-high and laid its eggs right on us. You can't tell me an American wasn't at the controls...
...FLAVIANO LABO, 31, an Italian-born tenor whose clear, powerful singing more than makes up for his lack of height (under 5 ft. 5 in.). He made his successful Met debut as Alvaro in Forza del Destino, and his Edgardo in last week's Lucia di Lammermoor had the house cheering. His secure, robust voice approaches the stentorian singing of Mario Del Monaco, although darker and not so piercing...
...Paulo, the Chicago of South America, divine protection was invoked last week for a band of 100 men. A Brazilian flag was blessed at Mass and the 100 shoved off for the wilder ness. Northwest toward an uncharted, un spoiled piece of the earth went flashy Colonel Flaviano Mattos Vanique with 30 technical experts, 70 roustabouts and science's most modern equipment. Their object: to open for colonization the Mato Grosso (Big Woods) province, half again the size of Texas; to map topography, explore for gold, diamonds, rubber and platinum...
...became conscious of the Big Woods province 30 years ago when toothsome Teddy Roosevelt, Son Kermit and Brazil's great pioneer explorer, General Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (now 78), floated down and mapped the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). The river was later named Rio Roosevelt. Flaviano Van-ique's sphere of action is a section neglected by Roosevelt and Rondon, east of T.R.'s treacherous River of Doubt...
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