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...surround the relief column. "Blocking Position." In Saigon, U.S. General William C. Westmoreland, commander of American forces in South Viet Nam, huddled with his Vietnamese counterparts, quickly decided that only massive American intervention could prevent disaster. Out went orders to all available military planes: start hauling men and gear to Pleiku from Bien Hoa airbase, 18 miles northeast of Saigon. In a matter of hours, troops of the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were climbing aboard their planes. Throughout the night and into the day, the big C-123s and C-130s lumbered into...
...with the nickel plate wins." Best of show went to Arland Banning of Des Moines, who owned a 1931 de luxe Phaeton with snap-in isinglass windows. Final event of the meet is a "slow-driving contest." Each contestant drives his car as slowly as possible in high gear without bucking and stalling-which takes perfect tuning of carburetor and ignition. The slowest car wins...
Many of the Army's 16 active divisions, the report says, have been stripped of certain categories of existing equipment and shortchanged on new gear because Viet Nam, understandably, gets top priority. As a result, there are "significant" shortages compounded by problems of equipment obsolescence...
...long sensing probe hanging from its belly made contact with the ground. The sensor automatically fired two small braking rockets about the size of portable fire extinguishers. With a resounding bang and a thick cloud of grey smoke, the capsule touched down on a tricycle landing gear similar to a set of small water skis...
...Libya. "That success alone," says Donnell, "more than justified the decision to venture abroad." The find has in creased Donnell's proven reserves by more than 100% (to 1.7 billion bbl.) and expanded his production by 150,000 bbl. per day. With that, Donnell moved into high gear. He acquired four more refineries and hundreds of gas stations by taking over Michigan's Aurora Gasoline Co. and Texas' Plymouth Oil Co., and in 1962 highlighted his company's rising scope by changing its name from Ohio to Marathon...