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...just taken off when Ang quietly slipped into the pilots' cabin. The two pilots, thinking that a passenger had come in for a view of the cockpit, glanced behind them-and looked straight into the barrel of Ang's .45 Colt. Ang thrust a typewritten note at them: "Do not be alarmed. I am a desperate man. This is a stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel...
Third, and most dangerous, there is the "pseudo-divinity of the modern state . . . a divinity thrust upon it by masses of insecure and frustrated people, insistently demanding some powerful and venerable object of faith and trust." Author Casserley compares the modern revolutionary movements to "the more discreditable phases of church history." Their symptoms: "A minute and hairsplitting dogmatism enthusiastically engaged upon for its own sake: the persecution of deviant shades of opinion; an enthusiastic cult of the [human] savior...
...Effulgent. Very possibly these two, like Eliot's silly "assistants" in The Cocktail Party, symbolize a serenity unknown to prideful intellectuals; but they are easier figures to envy than emulate. In any case, the young couple themselves seem less to acquire faith than have it thrust upon them, while the final curtain has less of a spiritual air than the customary romantic...
...raise the satellite station into its orbit 1,075 miles above the earth, Von Braun proposes to build a fleet of three-stage rockets, each standing 265 feet high and weighing 7,000 tons when fueled. The 51 motors in the first stage will have a thrust of 14,000 tons. The second stage will be smaller, and the third, containing the crew, control apparatus and final payload, will be a winged vehicle rather like an airplane...
After a few minutes the gamblers, bail paid, emerged from the room. All there of them were broad, swarthy-complexioned men. They wore their topcoats unbuttoned and their hats sat flat on their heads, and they all had their hands thrust in the pockets of their double-breasted jackets. They half-smiled, half-sneered, and swaggered slightly as they filed down the corridor...