Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During the next six days, according to his Navy and Marine Corps Medal citation, Kennedy "succeeded in getting his crew ashore and, after swimming many hours attempting...
...Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard crewmen saw-and tracked on radar-a U.F.O. that sped across the sky. A few of the sightings were accompanied by fascinating detail. From Reinhold Schmidt, a 48-year-old grain buyer who was driving through Nebraska, came the claim that he approached a cigar-shaped object that had landed. A ray of light froze him in his tracks, he said, and two spacemen dressed in American business suits searched him, then invited him aboard. They spoke High German, Schmidt insisted, and told him that "you'll know in the near future what this...
...later, the five survivors, of whom the eldest was 24, were safe on board. A sixth, the only man left in the lifeboat that had once held 25, was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Absecon. No sign was found of the rest of the 86 Pamir crewmen...
...symposium of psychologists which met in New York last week to discuss the public's notions about space flight, this athlete-type spaceman is miscast for the part. Every ounce of weight and every cubic inch of volume will be precious on a spaceship. Big, strong crewmen will not be welcome. Only brains to act as computers will be needed, plus an absolute minimum of supporting tissue...
...Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted the drunkenly weaving junk, boarded her and took her into custody...