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...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's surface...
...Arranges transfer to a farm crew, slips out of bed one night, tiptoes past the sleeping guard, opens the doorway to freedom-and admits a flock of raucously cackling geese...
...cliquishness even thrives in its political groups. For example, Slate, the reasonably influential, peace-oriented student political party, has its own social gatherings, which draw a constant flock of distinctly "Slate-types." One sophomore commented that he had been deterred from joining Slate for fear of being "lost in the clique...
...would have pleased Guggenheim, who built his nonobjective collection around Kandinsky. It would have brought a wry smile to Wright, who knew that crowds would first flock into the Guggenheim Museum only to see what Wright had wrought but would eventually come to see a show perfectly suited to its chambered-nautilus setting. And surely it would have delighted Kandinsky, who once wrote: "I would like above all an exhibit as comprehensive as possible; quantity aids the discovery of inner meanings...
Boroff finds that "surprisingly good" students flock to the academies. But something goes wrong, he thinks, when they get there. At "rambunctiously adolescent" Annapolis, senior essays run to such topics as "A History of Varsity Cross Country at the U.S.N.A." At austere West Point, cadets are "bright, dutiful boys with a conventional cast of mind." At the Air Academy, "even the bright cadets did not seem different from the duller ones; they all inhabited the same constricted intellectual and moral universe...