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...down, at the fairly young age of 67. In a decade or so, I will be older that he is, or was, yet I come no closer to reaching him now than when I was a kid. Old as I get, I shall never be smarter, surer, bigger. I dive for clues in the dark water. I go down...
...American infantryman released from his own country's concentration camp to join the fight. She was a nurse relieving the agony of a dying teenager. He was a petty officer standing on the edge of a heaving aircraft carrier with two signal paddles in his hands, helping guide a dive-bomber pilot back onto the deck...
...BEST DIVE: Back 1 1/2 somersault...
...Force's Lockheed C-130s, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently and dive the plane to make it harder to hit, tossing a few passengers about and causing at least one to start crossing himself furiously. The plane was landed safely. But every U.S. official since then has taken the long road--literally--a three-hour trip by armored car from Greece...
...Lockheed C-130's, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently and dive the plane to make it harder to hit, tossing a few passengers about and causing at least one to start crossing himself furiously. The plane landed safely. But every U.S. official since then has taken the long road -- literally: a three-hour trip by armored car from Greece to Macedonia...