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Despite all the advanced equipment, Jennifer was a nerve-racking job for the Glomar's crew of about 400. The racking began early on, when the crewmen were told what the ship's real mission was and given secrecy pledges to sign. Says one crewman: "They told us that they were the same kind of documents Daniel Ellsberg had signed." During the lift of the sub, the ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited...
...peacemakers met with little opposition, and even some enthusiasm. "There was no incident at all connected with their entry into the Beirut suburbs," reports TIME's Abu Said Abu Rish from the Lebanese capital. "In the column that pushed down the main Beirut-Damascus highway, one tank crewman was singing Arabic songs through a megaphone; another sat atop his turret playing a shepherd's flute. In some places the troops were received with slaughtered lambs. In others women threw rice and tincture of orange blossoms over them in the traditional sign of welcome...
...than star by myself in a flop," but observers find her the tensest and toughest of the Angels on the set. Says an executive: "At times Kate makes me feel like Kissinger negotiating between the Israelis and the Arabs. She ain't easy." Says a crewman: "She's got to be clever to make an impact on the screen. All Farrah has to do is smile; Jackie can just walk by in a bikini. Kate has to get to the audience by strength of personality-a much harder role...
...approve the next day's costumes. Even so, they are cosseted and primped all day long so that in every shot their looks err on the side of the fantastic rather than the realistic. "We treat them as if they were American Jewish princesses," says one crewman, "and they aren't even Jewish...
...sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman Hunt could kindle it. "His performance was wretched," said Warren. Canadian security forces, fearing a bombing, rushed a Coast Guard cutter, police boat and helicopter to the scene, and soon made plain what part of an 'orse they thought the British were...