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...have logged up to 1,400 hours in the air, boast more flying and combat experience than U.S. pilots stationed on Formosa. The Communist pilots, kept from training by a jet-fuel shortage, have proved no match for them. The gun camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that the U.S. has equipped some Nationalist planes with Sidewinders-a deadly, heat-seeking missile that guides itself...
Underground Village. At Kuning-tou, on the northwest tip of the island, I found a village of 2,000 people virtually deserted. Three weeks ago the streets were full of children, pigs, chickens and ducks. Now the pigs snort angrily in their concrete pens, the chickens scatter hysterically at the slightest noise, but the villagers are gone from dawn to darkness in search of safer places...
...steadiest short game on the tour. There are weaknesses, too. Palmer is a streak player ("It seems I was always blowing up just when I thought my game was under control''). Both he and Venturi are subject to long sieges of putting miseries. Casper tends to scatter his long shots and has a predilection for one bad round in too many tournaments; at Chicago, he carded a horrible 80 in the first round, came back with two 64s and a 67 to finish a respectable seventh. But overall, these three are far more consistent than...
...Duren denies both charges, explains: "The mound on the field is different-higher-than the warmup slab in the bullpen. I believe in getting adjusted to it by throwing as hard as I can, and sometimes it goes wild." The record shows that the brown-eyed fastballer is no scatter-arm pitcher. He has walked only 24 batters this season, hit only two. Says Detroit's Kaline: "Maybe he was wild once, but when I saw him in spring training he was getting those corners any time he needed to, and I said, 'This...
...have plenty of time to bring them all together in a tight cluster, like a bagful of marbles. As the cluster shoots into the solar system, it will, under the Kohman hypothesis, feel various gravitational pulls and will start to open, but its particles will not have time to scatter very widely before they hit the earth...