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First there was much pushing, shouting and loud argument. Then a fight broke out, lasting approximately 30 seconds. When it was over, six white airmen were hospitalized with head wounds. None of the injuries seemed serious, but at dawn Airman First Class Robert Padgett, 23, of Woodlawn, Va., died of a brain hemorrhage...
...force, so future Luftwaffe pilots had to learn to fly in engineless craft. At first, they hedgehopped for short distances along the hillsides, depending on air currents deflected upward by the slopes to keep them aloft. But in 1921, gliding down a slope in the Rhon Mountains, a German airman noticed a flock of storks suddenly shooting upward more than 1,200 ft. without so much as flapping a wing. He turned toward the birds-and found himself wafted higher in a thermal updraft, a chute of warm air that rises in an invisible column from the earth...
This pacifist paradox is illustrated in an incident of the Korean war. Three U.S. soldiers, a sergeant and two privates, rescue a North Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant...
...American serviceman-the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman who has stood ready in countless spots around the world from the paddyfields of Viet Nam to the blue waters of the Caribbean to serve his country, and meanwhile acts with warmth and friendship as its most effective ambassador of people-to-people diplomacy...
...Amateur Airman Egbert was clearly delighted at the prospect of getting his hands on Trans International's DC-8 jet and four Lockheed Constellations, which the airline uses principally for military contract work. But the Trans International purchase was only the latest step in a pell-mell diversification program under which Studebaker has bought up nine companies at a total cost of more than $100 million in cash and stock...