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...reinforce the troops already on hand. Still the killing went on. At Bachelor's Adventure, a predominantly Negro village 14 miles from Georgetown, Negroes took up spears and pitchforks, began attacking Indians and burning their homes. A pregnant woman, mother of eleven, was killed by a spear thrust in the back, her husband was critically injured, and an Indian watchman on a sugar plantation was shot dead. In Wismar, 60 miles south of Georgetown, Negro bands burned close to 200 homes and killed four East Indians, including one man burned to death. British troops rushed in to disperse...
...high-pressure air from the compressors of the jet engines spurt out of nozzles and bathe the flaps' upper surfaces, smoothing the air flow and creating extra lift. To supply enough air at 100 lbs. per sq. in., the engines must run at high speed, developing too much thrust for a plane on its landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that can be controlled by the pilot. NASA's 707 drops down to the runway so slowly that its horizontal tail surfaces need special...
Creeping Crickets. Twice a day, usually in early afternoon and again at dusk, the warm monsoon rains patter down. The paddies of the delta are already flooded ankle-deep. Plodding patiently across them, in a tableau ancient as the land itself, peasants in conical hats and mud-caked pants thrust pale green rice shoots into the fertile soil beneath the water. And in the humid dusk, countless crickets sing out-or get themselves captured by small boys who sell them to gambling elders for cricket fights...
Looking at both the civil rights and the peace movements, Noel Day said that "thus far," the thrust for both has been moral, philosophical, and theological. Now we have reached a point in both where we must speak in terms of power...
...talent and occasional for ward thrust, What a Way to Go! never really gets anywhere. The reasons why are neatly capsuled in Shirley's cinefantasy with Mitchum, described as "one of those Hollywood movies all about love and what'11-she-wear-next...