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Braced against the roll of his little Navy supply ship T-AKL 17, Skipper Sixto Mangual stared at the soft glow of a radarscope. In the center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic. Beyond the sea return-twelve miles away by the scale of the scope-a smaller blob of light pinpointed the position where Texas Tower 4,* a man-made Air Force radar island, was riding the storm. Suddenly, silently, the tower echo disappeared. Beyond the sea return there was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Death on Old Shaky | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

Search & Salvage. When last week's storm struck, it was too late. Hopefully, Captain Phelan asked T-AKL 17 to stand by through the night; he thought his tower would hold together and that his men could get off on Wasp helicopters in the morning. But in the morning all that could be recovered was the body of Master Sergeant Troy Williams floating in the fast-running sea. Wasp with its destroyer guard searched through a long two days. Divers investigated tapping sounds coming from the twisted underwater wreckage. But there were no survivors. The sounds that might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Death on Old Shaky | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...make his point even clearer, Al Beiraq Editor Fadel S. Akl informed interested politicians that they could buy space either as a political advertisement or as a straight news story. Said Editor Akl: "Those who disagree with me politically will naturally have to pay more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paying the Piper | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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