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...airstream. For many years, Sikorsky thinks, conventional helicopters will hold the ground that they have recently won. Eventually, perhaps, a convertiplane will be perfected that can retract its rotors completely while flying as an airplane. Such a craft, free of the rotor's drag, might have very great speed and range. Presumably Sikorsky is working on this design...
What are the Communist armies up to while the truce talks drag on? At a formal press conference, a Pentagon colonel last week told the U.S.: that the enemy has utilized the time since the Malik peace proposal to build up his strength tremendously. Items...
...started moving out. The lieutenant ordered Private Thompson to retreat. He refused. He said he was going to stay, and if he couldn't make it back he would at least "take a lot of the enemy with me." His squad leader and another G.I. tried to drag him away. Badly wounded, he fought them off. The last the platoon saw of Soldier Thompson, the Koreans were closing in, lobbing grenades at his still-chattering machine...
Come-as-you-are parties are also rite. They are planned in advance by one small group who, at the appointed time, rest out their companions and drag them, in various states of undress, down to the drawing room, where cat sessions ensue...
...contra-MacArthur policy on China [Acheson] should insist on his own retirement, or his transfer to a useful field of endeavor ... It is unfair to the President's overburdened office that he should shoulder the embarrassment of having a Secretary who, far from being an influence, is a drag...