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...hose. Solemnly, the big bags shook out their wrinkles as they were inflated and rose into the familiar, half-round shape of a Quonset hut. The four sections were joined together and the joints zippered airtight. Out of the other packages came 20 beds and all the gear needed for as many patients. Only eight men were needed...
Robinson's second place was the most spectacular of the other Crimson performances. Starting in the outside lane from an unstaggered start, Sam was forced to bide his time until the gun lap. Then he shifted into passing gear and caught everyone but Army's Henry Farrell, who led all the way and finished...
Died. Joan Merriam Smith, 28, daredevil aviatrix who last March set out to retrace the ill-fated Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan in hopes of becoming the first woman to solo around the world, despite frozen landing gear, leaky gas tanks, engine trouble and poor weather, touched back down at Oakland, Calif., 27,750 miles and 57 days later-only to have a rival, Jerry Mock, flying a route 4,000 miles shorter, beat her by 25 days; of injuries sustained when the rented Cessna 181 she was flying with a friend crashed near Big Pine, Calif...
...Western world. Now the Pentagon is widening its sales push to some 60 nations whose economies are strong enough so that they can help finance their own security. This year the program is expected to bring a 25% increase in orders for everything from missiles to navigation gear...
...military boss (and victor of Dienbienphu), General Vo Nguyen Giap. They are trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...