Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carter Ford will defend the White Trophy for the New England Sloop Championship tomorrow and Sunday against the hosting Coast Guard Academy, B.U., Holy Cross, M.I.T., Tufts, and Williams. Of Ford's three crewmen, Pete Drake, Rock Pring, and Mike Horn, the latter two were with him when he sailed away from B.U. in a playoff match last fall...
...Pentagon confirmed that the story was all too probable. Four U.S. soldiers stationed with the Laotian army as PEO military advisers were lost when the Pathet Lao overran Vang Vieng ten weeks ago. Also missing are three helicopter crewmen and an NBC photographer who went down in a crash behind enemy lines and a Long Island contractor who disappeared on a hunting trip...
...world's ships and shipping business would pass into foreign hands, leaving the U.S. with out even a flag-of-convenience merchant fleet to use in case of war. The unions retort that such ships might well be of little value in an emergency because some of the crewmen are "unqualified," and their loyalty to the U.S. is questionable...
...rotating, triangular radar antenna, 80 ft. on a side. This electronic monster is named ZAR (Zeus Acquisition Radar), and when it sends its pulses into space to probe for incoming missiles, the fence will act as a shield to keep the powerful radio waves from frying all Kwajalein. Crewmen operating ZAR will go to work through a metal-shielded tunnel...
...deck of the carrier, 1,200 crewmen who roared their cheers when they heard that Shepard was on his way, waited in silent expectation as he made his lonely flight. From time to time an announcer reported his progress; then Shepard's voice itself came over the loudspeaker. It was not clear. He was descending, and the Gs of re-entry were pressing him hard. Every man on the deck scanned the sky. When Freedom 7's big orange-and-white parachute popped open at 10,000 ft., the Lake Champlain came alive with cheers once more. "Damn...