Sitting behind a Connecticut lunch-wagon counter and listening to the world's news, Stephen J. Supina decided that what the United Nations needed was a nudge. Supina, who had been a turret gunner in the war, did not write a letter to the papers. Last week he hired a tiny red and yellow Aeronca plane, drew a circle around Lake Success on his map, wrapped 150 feet of wire around his middle and took off.
As he approached the target he let down a powder charge on the wire, and touched it off with a spark from two flashlight batteries. The resulting...
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