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...Hainan's east coast. At about 8:40 a.m., two Chinese fighters suddenly appeared. The aircraft were later identified as Lavochkin LA-7s, Soviet-built prop-driven fighters. For no apparent reason, the planes opened machine-gun and cannon fire. The DC-4's captain Philip Blown tried evasive action, hurling the DC-4 into a steep dive. But the airliner kept taking hits. Syd's Pirates: A Story of an Airline (Durnmount, 1983), by retired Cathay senior captain Charles "Chic" Eather, documents the attack. Eather, now 81 and living on Australia's Gold Coast, recalls that despite Blown...
...cockpit, wrecking part of the instrument panel. Bullets tore into the back of the plane's engineer as he tried to help the two pilots get the shuddering plane under control; he died on the spot. Another blast killed a stewardess. Barely two minutes after the attack began, Blown wrestled the burning DC-4 onto the ocean surface. Miraculously, a dinghy appeared among the debris. Nine survivors struggled aboard. As rescue planes alerted by Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British administration that no military aircraft were to approach the accident scene...
...divided in two. It is divided in three: a third (liberal), a third (middle) and a third (conservative). Bush is losing his touch with the middling third. The left third and the right third operate from principle, and are stable in their allegiances. The middle third may change loyalties, blown this way or that by sometimes fatuous notions of decorum. If Bush continues to offend the middle's sense of the American story, he is headed for disaster in less than 18 months...
...have never been prouder to be in the United States Senate," McCain pronounced in an Oscar-style, I'd-like-to-thank speech before the vote. To use McCain's favorite analogy during his presidential run, Luke Skywalker has blown up the Death Star...
...growing fur. He doesn't walk, he lumbers, and the closest thing to a smile he'll offer is a small grin--a smirk, really. I got one for noticing the GRIZZLY BEAR CROSSING sign on his wall, near a swollen bookcase burdened with such cheery titles as Blown to Bits, Cleaning Up the Mess and Debt Shock. No question: Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, is Wall Street's ranking pessimist. As such, being right--as he has been lately--is a mixed blessing. It means things suck. So it would be unseemly to gloat...