Foreign News: What Are We Usually Doing?

For almost 20 years of war and revolution the pilots of the China National Aviation Corp. have flown some of the most hazardous commercial schedules in the world. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle accompanied C.N.A.C. Captain Herbert MacWilliams (TIME, Nov. 25) on his last two flights into embattled Suchow. Doyle's report:

At 3:30 a.m. Captain MacWilliams banged into the C.N.A.C. ready room at Shanghai's Lunghua airport. He went up to a blue-suited Chinese at a long counter marked "Briefing." "You going to Suchow, eh?" said the Chinese. Then, in a positive tone, he...