Dangerous U S Marines Airlift Into Khe Sanh Abyss
At Khe Sanh the most dangerous airfield in South Vietnam hosts 5,000 Marines supplied entirely by air as they endure siege by Communist forces. Captain Ernest Guenther lands a 16 ton Hercules under fire while Sgt. Richard Finkle assists unloads medics tend to casualties amid bunkers scarred by shelling.
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South Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Ernest Guenther
Arcadia
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Guenther
Richard Finkle
Millcreek
Incoming rocket forces swift takeoff of heavy cargo plane
The bomber-like craft taxis as an incoming rocket rips the air. Crew orders patients aboard and doors shut. A 16 000 horsepower engine powers a rapid rollout down the runway. In the cargo bay 60 men brace, one Marine on a stretcher receives blood plasma as touchdown to takeoff lasts exactly nine minutes.
Small clay tablets show ancient stalement buying
Archaeologists report tablets uncovered in Nazi Iraq reveal early forms of installment purchasing dating to around 2500 B.C. The discovery suggests long standing trade practices shaping consumer credit in the ancient world.
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Nazi
Iraq
Editorial Writer Topic of Lecture at William Allen White Lecture
The annual William Allen White Lecture will be delivered at 2:30 p.m. Monday by Mark Ethridge former publisher of the Louisville Courier Journal and 1968 national cited.
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William Allen White
Mark Ethridge
Louisville Courier-Journal
National Citee
William Allen White Day Events at Kansas University
Ethridge will speak at 2 30 p m in the Big Eight and Jayhawk Rooms as part of William Allen White Day activities. A prior William Allen White program features William L White of the Emporia Gazette discussing his late father’s work at a 12 45 p m luncheon in the Union Ballroom with Gov. and Mrs. Robert Docking and former Gov. Alf Landon attending.
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Kansas Union
William Allen
William L. White
Emporia Gazette
White
Union Ballroom
Robert Docking
Kansas
Alf Landon
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