Word: crewman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before sunset, Jones and his crewman, Marine Corporal Larry Whittall, spotted the downed fighter pilot. He had moved into an abandoned foxhole on top of a hill; U.S. fighter planes overhead were firing at swarms of Reds who were trying to get at him. Just as Jones was about to lower his helicopter for a landing, he ran into Red fire. "Guys were running out of a house taking pot shots at us," Jones recalls...
...couple of storms, the vast Pacific obligingly lived up to its name. The Kon-Tiki had been built cunningly and rode the seas like a chip. "The more leaks the better. Through the gaps in our floor the water ran out but never in." Only once was a crewman in serious danger, when Watzinger fell overboard and was unable to catch up with the raft, which was at the mercy of the current. Haugland jumped in with a life line and rescued him while the other four watched with horror as some huge sea monster tailed the swimming...
...passenger or crewman had survived to give evidence. Most of them burned beyond recognition, 55 men, women & children, including Egyptian Screen Star Camellia (Lilliane Cohen), "the Lana Turner of the East," and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's able Dean Everett Moore Baker, had died...
...seconds, degrees and miles of a B-36 flight, mean packing aboard survival kits for the Arctic, life rafts for the ocean, 100 Ibs. of food* to be cooked in two tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
Last week a crewman got left off the Council election ballot in Winthrop House, and fourteen crew members were granted an exclusive right to absentee ballots. In six other House elections there was a discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and the number of names checked off, and in two of these cases the discrepancy was sufficient to require a revote. This looseness in following election rules and procedure points up a need for more careful conduct of Council elections...