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Long Count. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett naval air station, the emergency word was passed. Lieut. Commander Frederick J. Hancox, a Coast Guard ready rescue pilot, was jangled from his bed. With his four crewmen, he scrambled for his twin-engined Grumman Albatross, was airborne at 1:02 a.m. Grinding out over the sea, Hancox called into his lip mike: "Hello Yankee Victor Charlie Alpha Mike Sierra,* This is Coast Guard 2124 . . . Do you read? . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124, request a long count from you on this frequency. Over." Back came the long "one-two-three-four . . ." from...
...From the Albatross, Hancox watched Mike Sierra. Plata's air speed was within limits-barely over the minimum 160 m.p.h. Then Hancox noted that Plata had forgotten to turn off his blinking running lights, potential sparkmakers because of their constantly opening and closing electrical circuits. Mike Sierra began dumping gas. From his spot above and to the rear of the Constellation, Coast Guardsman Hancox saw small blue flashes plume off in the moonlight, then a bursting flame...
...Baas." "Can't you leave me alone?" asks Fletcher. "No, baas." In these simple words, the formula of a social poison is stated. There is no forgiveness of trespasses, but a meting-out predating the New Testament. Joseph has made of himself a human albatross, and he and the ones who have wronged him will hang together to the end. Fletcher, the white man, is left in a hysteria of frustration, "dancing there, solitary in the veld, a grotesque little figure, capering under a blazing...
...vehement talk. "We seek action now," cried N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. "We are here to condemn murderers. We are here to demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
...case of John Paton Davies shows that little has been learned. The albatross of incompetence was hung around Davies' neck, and he was summarily dismissed from the Service last week because he advocated limited rapprochement with the Chinese Communists in the gloomy days of the early '40's when the Japanese were kicking the Nationalists back into the hills...