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...Communists died in the 25-minute running fire fight, but the other two escaped and were trailed northward by a growing force of G.I.s and South Koreans. Four helicopters flew low overhead, and their prop wash parted the reeds and kept the running North Koreans in sight. At midafternoon, exhausted and surrounded, each Communist pulled the pin from a grenade, fell upon it and committed suicide...
...takes him to fall from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do the big stuff." Yet he was above all the master of color who raised it, as the late Walter Pach said, "from an accessory to a completely expressive role"-from prop, that is, to performer...
...pilot stationed in northeast Poland, Major Obacz received official clearance to log extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When...
Hetty; it had been in the family for years. She was a Robinson from New Bedford, and her grandfather had amassed a great whaling fortune. Growing up as an only child, Hetty learned the uses of money the way other youngsters learned their nursery rhymes. Her father used to prop her on his knee and read her the stock quotations. When Hetty Robinson, at 31, married 46-year-old Vermont Millionaire Edward Henry Green, she was already by inheritance one of the richest women in the U.S.; her bridegroom was said to have signed a statement renouncing all future rights...
White business men, of course, view this difference as the prop on which their tranquility rests. They are assured of the support of most of Chestertown's Negro leaders, whose security still depends upon their approval. This is an increasingly tenuous sort of arrangement; yet for the past 15 years it has managed to satisfy the Negro community, providing it with unmistakable signs of material progress while masking the fact that Chestertown has not even begun to achieve actual integration...