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...army in 1959, skinny Rafael Saavedra supported himself by selling fruit and newspapers in the streets of the city of Santa Clara. In July 1960 he finally found steady work gassing and washing planes for a crop-dusting company at Santa Clara airport. He also found a friend, Ground Crewman Félix Montano Echevarria, 26. Together they dreamed of escaping to freedom and prosperity in the U.S., and Félix, who was taking flying lessons, thought he knew...
...parachute continued its float down. Mitchell made another pass at it at 10,000 ft., but brought his Cng in too high. He wheeled back for a third try, which he knew must be his last. At 8,500 ft. Mitchell carefully made his final pass, heard a crewman shout: "That's it. You've got hold...
...caught the eye of Fisherman Frank Mikuletzky as it nosed toward the fishing boat Doris May III. Suddenly, Mikuletzky shouted as the ZPG gently folded and dropped "like a sagging banana." Aboard the blimp, Crewman Antonio Contreras, 22, heard a blast, felt the airship nose over, and seconds later was fighting his way free into the water. Only two of his mates survived the unexplained crash with him. One crewman died after being pulled from the sea; 17 others drowned in their double-decked gondola under 15 fathoms. Later, the missing sloop was spotted by planes and a submarine...
Before the start of last week's race. Crewman Bunny Rigg, burly editor of the Skipper magazine, cracked slyly: "Don't bet against us." Few did. When the winds freshened to gale strength on the fifth day out, other boats were plagued with seasickness. But Finisterre's shipshape crew kept every possible inch of sail flying, whipped past far bigger boats laboring under storm rigs. "That blow came through like a buzz saw," said Mitchell later. "The boat was knifing out of the water and porpoising. It was wet below, but we had our hot meals...
...carpet, miscalculated the distance and arrived at the ramp of the plane with a dismaying roll left over. For a moment it looked as though the President of the U.S. might have to hurdle the carpet before he set foot on Brazilian soil, but an enterprising MATS ground crewman saved the situation by quickly cutting off the extra roll with his pocketknife, tucking the ragged edge under the ramp...