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...Unscheduled Swim." Rick Adams' attachment to freedom twice prompted him to risk his life rather than eject from mortally damaged aircraft over populated areas, where he would have had scant chance of rescue. His first escape came near Hanoi last October, when his F-8 Crusader was hit by a Russian SAM missile. "I held my breath for a second and the airplane kept flying," he recounts, "but I knew that I was hurt bad, so I leaned on the stick and turned and headed out to sea." Squadron Commander Richard ("Belly") Bellinger, 42, yelled for him to eject...
...Canton began swapping rum and ratguards for labor and litchi nuts. Today's scrounger can be an Air Cav supply sergeant or an Air Force crew chief, but Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit in the area. "Over here it's a self-help program," says Feddersen, "where you're the self doing...
...when a motorist crashed into his bicycle, fracturing his spine. Often unable to paint, scarcely able to walk, he took up his pen and wrote two books of stories, two fictionalized autobiographies of boyhood, a lengthy journal and this brilliant, terrible novel. Published in England in 1950, it received scant attention; but critics have recently recognized Welch's memoir as a minor masterpiece, and it has now been published in the U.S. for the first time...
...question of reunification. Perhaps more important was the record oversupply of 21 million tons of coal, which stands in ominous black mountains from Bottrop to Bochum. To the Ruhr, it brought the fear of mine closings, short shifts and layoffs. The big steel firms are running at a scant 80% of production capacity. Add to that the perennial German fear of inflation, and the fact that living costs rose 4.4% in the past year, and the stage was set for trouble...
...discovering the truth and dispensing justice, the parties to the trials are really seeking triumph and justification. The very phrase "adversary system" denotes a bitter duel rather than a disinterested inquiry. Worse, the duelers tend to indulge in trickery, and fight with "make-believe" evidence that often bears scant relation to the facts at issue...