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...years ago, it mustered 6,000 men and 185 aircraft -many of them ancient T-28 trainers converted to fighter-bombers. Today the air force has 12,500 men and 350 planes. The T-28s have been phased out and replaced by the A-1H Skyraider attack bomber, a brute of a plane that pilots fondly call "a truck-but what a truck!" The air force's primary mission is to fly close support for the army, and, operating in close cooperation with U.S. pilots, it has developed into Asia's second best air force (only Nationalist China...
...classic Bolivian happening, part brute force and part black magic, asking more questions than it answered! A sea of gold braid, army olive and air-force blue swept silently out of the President's office, down one flight of stairs, and swirled around a small table bearing a crucifix. There, as his colleagues looked on, Air Force General Rene Barrientos solemnly swore in Army General Alfredo Ovando Candia as his co-President of Bolivia's ruling junta. Ovando, Barrientos dryly observed, came "from the very entrails of the army" and was a man worthy of his new position...
...graveyard of mediocrity had abruptly kicked off its tombstones with a sudden ineluctable rush of life. Perhaps it is moving precisely because it is a play of the spirit that moves from death toward life. The mother is throttled by her illusions, the daughter is felled by the brute strength of the world, and the gentleman caller founders in the anonymous quicksand of being average. But the son Tom, the writer-to-be in this distinctly autobiographical play, is about to be born to his vocation and to the appalling and enthralling adventure of becoming himself...
...Force chief of staff, General John P. McConnell, was hopping mad. He had just heard that two U.S. F-105 Thunderchiefs had been shot down by MIGs of the tiny (36 jets) North Vietnamese air force. What McConnell wanted to know was how the Thunderchief, a big brute of a plane with speeds up to 1,400 m.p.h., had been bested in combat by the snail-paced (730 m.p.h.) MIG-17, a relic of the Korean...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...