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...highly successful strafing mission. Hess had spotted four Communist boats crossing the Kum River east of Taejon. He burned and strafed the boats, wheeled and roared back at the target again. Fleeing Red soldiers were scrambling up the river bank. Hess's six machine guns laced a pattern of lead along the bank. "I looked back," he said, "and there were 30 soldiers stretched out flatter than pancakes." He grinned, then checked himself. "It's a terrible thing," he said, "to snuff out lives that...
Reading the ultra-Tory London Daily Mail last week, Londoners chuckled at a sprightly story by a reporter who wanted to buy a bicycle and found himself snarled in the paper work of Laborite bureaucracy. The headline was of a familiar pattern...
...power is far out of proportion to their intellectual capacity . . . or their political honesty ... It is not just 'socialized medicine' which they seek . . . Their real objective is to strip the American people of self-determination and self-government, and make this a socialist state in the pathetic pattern of the socially and economically bankrupt nations of Europe, which we, the American people, are seeking to rescue from poverty and oppression...
...seemed to nod and Benjamin Krieger shrieked: "Then you are the man who killed my brother!" His anguished voice shattered the peaceful pattern of the street. Bearded men turned on the sidewalk and ran back; others rushed out from shops. Benjamin Krieger swung wildly with his fist, and the narrow-faced stranger ran. A yelling crowd of 50 people followed him. The stranger ducked into a religious bookshop and his pursuers began calling, "Lynch him. . . let us have...
...members of this class may make a partial adjustment and become involved in marriage, but this solves the problem only outwardly ... A closer inspection will demonstrate the same pattern of flight and combat interwoven with the marriage thread. There may be an excessive . . . interest in card playing and club and sport pursuits and a proportionate neglect of the husband. This type will take great interest in traveling alone, in purchasing expensive clothes, perhaps even in the aggressive pursuit of a career. Pregnancy is avoided as a nuisance or even a calamity...