Word: railyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strays over China. It was after hitting a railyard fully 75 miles from the Chinese border that two Navy A-6 Intruders strayed over China and were brought down by MIGs. They were attacked by Red fighters on their return trip to the carrier Constellation, and to evade pursuit they peeled off to the north. Thunderclouds and a foulup in their navigational instruments complicated their plight. Traveling at about 500 m.p.h., they probably reached China in about ten minutes. Now listed as missing are the four crewmen of the two planes: Lieut. Commander Jimmy Buckley, Lieut. Robert Flynn, Lieut. Commander...
Zotov is the precise reverse of the old cast-iron, pure-in-word-and-deed Soviet literary hero whom he outwardly resembles. His scruples about profiting from his command position at the railyard, his diffidence about sex, his devotion to duty are presented not as Soviet virtues grafted on him by the state but as signs of an inner innocence that is doomed to disillusion. The moment comes when Zotov is confronted by a "straggler"-one of the thousands of Russian soldiers who had been separated from their outfits in the confusion as the Germans advanced. Zotov is drawn...