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...death chamber," wrote Paul Holmes of the Chicago Tribune. "She is remarkable for an outgoing disposition that makes it appear she seeks friends for friendship only and neither needs nor wants sympathy. She is remarkable for her gaiety, her effervescence, and for an underlying intelligence that is her ultimate armor...
...antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
...jeweled idol released from a total eclipse, stands the sun god, the Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem wearily stitched into their grey-hued armor as if they had enlisted for eternity. Spookily, stylized Peruvian masks glare, peer and revolve in ritual chorus like puzzled primordial birds. Royal Hunt dazzles the eye as a spectacle...
...Vertol's 44-passenger, turbine-powered Chinook has already gone into service, and the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) is using Sikorsky's turbine-powered CH-54As-or Skycranes-which can carry 87 men or six Jeeps. Because its Hueys were being hit by groundfire, Bell developed an armor-plated HueyCobra with a turbine engine, is hoping for Pentagon approval. Hughes Tool last spring won a contract for a light observation helicopter, is building more than 700 OH-6As, which cruise at 145 m.p.h. and can lift slightly more than their own weight...
...ceasefire. Kashmir remained divided. India still claimed 690 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory (see map), but had failed by a scant three miles to capture the strategic Sialkot plateau. Pakistan held 250 sq. mi. of Indian Kashmir and Rajasthan, but had lost -temporarily at least - half its armor. And Red China had lost that most val uable of Asian commodities: face...