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...Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American men and materiel into the area. The thick new strip will be the only one in the region designed to support the B-52 bombers, which now fly 5,200-mile round trips from Guam for their missions in Viet Nam. Though there are no present plans to make U-Tapao a full-time B-52 base, the huge...
...gangling figure in baggy fatigues, Page has a frightening knack for being close-sometimes too close-to the action. Near Chu Lai last August, he took memorable LIFE color pictures of the Marine operation, as well as a painful piece of Viet Cong shrapnel in his rear. In the thick of the recent Buddhist revolt in Danang, Page was again working for LIFE when a rebel grenade exploded near his face and cost him two pints of blood before medics could patch up his eight wounds...
...needn't argue about that: I'm right, and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus Christ now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins...
...couples clustered at 8 p.m. or so to nudge croquet balls on the House lawn. As more people showed the gateman their invitations or spoke the password, "swordfish," the air became thick with smoke from Danish tobacco...
...picture of Mars," Pollack said yesterday, "is much like the Earth without oceans." The dark areas are contintents, and the bright areas are dry ocean basins. There are differences, of course: Mars can support higher mountains because it has less gravity, and it overed with a thick layer of dust...