Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea seized the U.S. Navy intelligence vessel, Pueblo is still a fresh topic for 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists and National Guardsmen called to the colors since last January's crisis. Although tempers have cooled and negotiations for the release of the captive ship and its crew are dry-docked amid lengthy diplomatic wrangling, the reservists could be kept on active duty for as long as two years...
...July attack somewhere on U.S. troops. Early on the Fourth, they opened up with a 500-round mortar and rocket barrage on Dau Tieng, a U.S. fire base 38 miles northwest of Saigon. They followed up the barrage with a ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches in a wide arc around the city, including more than 60 rockets cleverly hidden...
...have to waste time in customs and you don't have to declare anything." The Guinnesses are usually accompanied by a basic traveling staff of four, and they get about quite a bit, aided by their helicopter, their transatlantic jet and their 704-ton yacht with its crew of twelve. They follow the big and little seasons on such a clockwork schedule that they often don't even have to wire ahead. "When it's time for me to be in Paris, for instance," says Gloria, "the people there know when to expect...
...traveling in divergent directions, laser light is what scientists call "coherent." It emerges from the rod in rays that are parallel; it is all of the same wave length, and it is all in phase or in step, each ray reinforcing the others, like oarsmen in a superbly trained crew...
...last year's America's Cup winner, Intrepid, and cost $20,000 apiece. Ondine has two cockpits (to keep other crewmen from interfering with the helmsman), and just about every navigational device short of radar: VOR, Loran, ADF, four wind indicators. Sailing Ondine takes a total crew of 20, including a professional captain, a ship's doctor (who doubles as cook), an engineer, a navigator-Long himself- and 16 deck hands who work in shifts or watches of eight at a time. "Logistics are a substantial problem," admits Long. "Just feeding 20 people and arranging for stores...