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...clouds; the shallow river below was jammed with enemy armored cars and trucks trying to cross. Calling to his flight to follow, Major Louis J. Sebille, a fighter pilot in World War II, pushed over and went into the attack. Red tracers thudded into his plane.The engine sprayed cooling fluid, began to overheat. Major Sebille's wingman radioed him to turn back. "I'll never make it," the C.O. answered calmly, "I'm going back and get that bastard." Then, with all six guns blazing, Sebille dived straight into the Communist column; his plane exploded...
...painter who paints no pictures, a sculptor who carves no stone. He molds abstract shapes of wood and plaster, paints them with wavering, rainbow strokes of cool color, ornaments them with bold patterns, simplified human figures and shadow-casting bumps and cutouts. Result: a new kind of fluid wall decoration which revives, in a modern idiom, the painted-sculpture art of the ancient Egyptians, Syrians and Greeks...
Farmer Morton took his blue-eyed son from doctor to doctor, dipping deep into his meager savings. Finally Donald's illness was diagnosed: subdural hydroma, or water on the brain, usually the result of a head injury that tears the tissue surrounding the brain, allowing cerebro-spinal fluid to become pocketed under the parchment-like membrane between skull and brain. An operation to relieve the pressure was unsuccessful...
After their headlong retreat two weeks ago, the Chinese caught their breath, stiffened, and fought. U.N. forces moved ahead slowly in some sectors. Their chief objective: the Reds' forward supply areas. The war ground on in what one reporter called a "fluid stalemate." U.N. commanders were sure that the Reds would try another offensive push, estimated that despite heavy casualties they had 600,000 troops ready to fight in Korea. Said U.N. Commander General Ridgway: "With [the Chinese Communists] there is no compromise, and for us there is no choice...
Babe's booming 240-yd. drives (20 yards farther than the rest of the girls) stood her well, but that is not the only secret of her success. The real trick: "to keep the ball in play," i.e., out of trouble. Babe keeps out of trouble with a fluid swing ("practice, practice, practice") which requires "a stamp of the left foot" to get the arms and body into the pivot...