. . . And the ravens brought him [Elijah'] bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
I Kings 17:6
The few Christian survivors of the weird, 18-month Communist siege of the Chinese walled city of Yungnien were convinced this week that the airplane would never replace the raven as a satisfactory instrument for airborne delivery. For a year Yungnien's dwindling population had been perilously supplied by the Nationalist Government. Great, 60-pound loaves of unleavened bread and cases of canned fish, pitched from low-flying aircraft, had warded off starvation, but...
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