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...thought that your readers would be interested in knowing of yet another use of the Morton Salt Co.'s [May 7] product: making fresh water into salt water for the joy and comfort of the porpoises at the Cape Coral Gardens here in Florida. Fifty thousand lbs. of table salt were initially poured into the porpoise pool. The porpoise couldn't tell the artificial water from the real thing...
...LIEUT. JOHN G. DODSON, 25, from El Paso, Texas, is an RF8 Marine photo-reconnaissance pilot on the carrier Coral Sea. His maintenance crew proudly records each of his missions by painting a small camera on the side of his jet. As of last week there were twelve cameras in a row - and a little yellow truck...
Toward week's end, U.S. jets again clashed with MIGs, and again suffered a loss. Four Navy F-4 Phantoms from the carriers Coral Sea and Ranger were flying patrol about 35 miles from the Communist Chinese island of Hainan...
...flew 17,570 sorties on both sides of the border. Their chief target was North Viet Nam's radar network: with everything from half-ton bombs to deadly white phosphorous, they hit Donghoi, Hatinh, Cap Mui Ron and, in strikes by 100 Navy planes from the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Han cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island. For the first time, U.S. pilots were allowed to seek out targets of opportunity instead of limiting their attacks to targets chosen in Washington. They were quick to exercise their new option...
Reader, beware. Wouk is writing for grownups, and he has a murky, modern, antiromantic intelligence. The promise of enchantment is fulfilled only in irony. His coral cuts, his sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies. His ocean has sharks and floating garbage. His only pirate is a boozy, busted corporate raider named Lester Atlas, who staggers into every scene with a yo-ho-ho and a rum and tonic. His hero is a middle-aged (49) New York Jew with a heart condition. The result is not romance but farce laced with tears...