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...canyon, the red-and-white chopper hovers into view. Right ahead of it, seven majestic mustangs pirouette across a low ridge, chest-high in the sage, kicking contrails of acrid dust in their wake. It is their last moment of freedom. An airborne chase that began miles and ridges ago is about...
Finding the quarry in this 100,000-acre expanse requires sharp eyes and unflagging concentration. From the air, both the horses and the forest appear gray. The chopper darts up ridges and down canyons until Crawford, in the copilot's seat, spots a band of bobbing heads in a grove of cedars. The men use their craft as an earthbound cowboy uses his horse at roundup time, circling and feinting and cutting off lines of escape. Biggs sets the rotor low and at the mustangs' tails. When they break again, the copter sets down, Crawford leaps...
Then they hurried back onto the chopper to lift off for Andrews Air Force Base. Looking down at the White House, Nixon, struggling to break the ice, said, "I kind of like that house down there, don't you?" Old angers and hatreds were beginning to fall away...
Muller saw combat the day he arrived in Viet Nam. "I got off the chopper, walked down the trail, and immediately saw bodies," he recalls. "Suddenly, the reality of war was driven home." Less than a year later, while trying to lead a company of reluctant Vietnamese soldiers up a hill near Con Thien, he was struck in the chest by a Viet Cong bullet that severed his spine...
Brown didn't miss his heat. After allowing back-to-back first-inning singles, the fireballer tamed the Tigers with an clusive slider and sailing hard stuff that made up in movement for what it lacked in velocity. Mark Lockenmeyer's fourth-inning infield chopper was Princeton's only other safety...