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...bridge, Executive Officer Roosevelt saw a gunner whose pants were rolled up, told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
...plot of Hostages is complicated but it never turns into plot for plot's sake. Every new twist flashes a facet of the Nazi, quisling or underground political mind. These facets would flash brighter if all the characters were more incisive and the scenes moved faster...
...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...
...dangerous or repulsive diseases. Among the less familiar ones: African sleeping sickness, relapsing fever (a periodic fever transmitted by bedbugs), schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis (all three, parasitic infestations), yaws (a type of stubborn skin sore indigenous to the tropics). Says Dr. Faust: fortunately, most tropical epidemics are "not like flash floods, but like slowly mounting river stages from spring thaws, giving ample time for tightened safeguards." In Dr. Faust's opinion the three diseases that need most watching...
Into the Manhattan headquarters of the Associated Press one evening last week came a flash from Bureau Chief Edward Kennedy at Algiers that made A.P. eyes pop: "DE LUCE MADE TRIP INTO BAL KANS WHICH ARRANGED ITALY. WILL WRITE SERIES STORIES. DE LUCE DESERVES HIGHEST CREDIT." Then came the first De Luce dispatch. The astonishing dateline: "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia...