Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOSEPH P. BLANCHARD: Year-book, business manager; Krokodiloes; Senior Associate; Glee Club, provisional member; Delphic Club; Hasty Pudding; Lion Rampant, manager; Winthrop House Crew; H-R Students for Brooke, co-ordinator...
...intelligence source -and far more difficult to detect-than the disgruntled general or the indiscreet diplomat. Last week, in a case that has still undetermined links in Britain, the FBI arrested a characteristically obscure technician on charges of conspiring with the Russians. Held on $50,000 bail was a crew-cut Air Force communications operator and repairman, Staff Sergeant Herbert Boecken-haupt, 23, who had worked for some 17 months in the Air Force's Pentagon communications center, and was distinguished only by his unhappy childhood in Nazi Germany...
...fire caught hundreds of the Oriskany's 3,400-man crew below deck. Worst hit was "officers' country" in the forecastle, where many men had not yet climbed out of their bunks. As the choking fumes billowed into their compartments, they tried to escape, only to be forced back by the deadly smoke and heat in the passageways. Lieut. Commander Marvin Reynolds opened his porthole and managed to alert some hands on the top deck; they handed down a hose and an oxygen mask. Then Reynolds spent three hours spraying water around his oven-hot compartment. Commander Richard...
That night, looking as if she had taken a direct hit in battle, the 42,000-ton Oriskany limped across the South China Sea, bound for Subic Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after she docked there, honor guards from her crew carried away a seemingly endless line of flag-draped coffins. Thus, only two weeks before she was due to finish her second tour of duty off Viet Nam, the Oriskany suffered in one day the Navy's worst disaster of the Viet Nam War: 35 officers (24 of them combat-conditioned pilots) and eight enlisted men had died...
...past two weeks, leading an entourage that included her aunt as a chaperon, her accompanists, a reporter for France Soir and a camera crew filming her every movement for a French TV documentary, Mireille hopscotched from Paris to Manhattan to Dallas to Hollywood, where she signed substantial contracts for two movies and several appearances on the Danny Kaye and Andy Williams TV shows. Then she rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny...