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...Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen of the 120th TFS have racked up more than 1,000 missions since reaching Viet Nam early in May. "What we got was real pros," says a regular chicken colonel at Phan Rang. "I thought we were going to get a bunch of weekend warriors forever bellyaching about hardships...
...takes 27 winches to handle her 2,900 sq. ft. of sail-including two huge Graydon Smith "coffee grinders" that are improved versions of those used on last year's America's Cup winner, Intrepid, and cost $20,000 apiece. Ondine has two cockpits (to keep other crewmen from interfering with the helmsman), and just about every navigational device short of radar: VOR, Loran, ADF, four wind indicators. Sailing Ondine takes a total crew of 20, including a professional captain, a ship's doctor (who doubles as cook), an engineer, a navigator-Long himself- and 16 deck...
...Located by a yellow telephone buoy at a depth of 240 ft., Squalus ultimately relinquished 33 of her crewmen to safety; 26 others had been drowned in a flooded aftercompartment...
...grappling with problems such as how to ceep the sympathetic strings of a sitar Tom vibrating to the twangs of a nearby banjo. What makes many talented audio engineers defect to the technical haven of the recording companies is the frustrating acoustical conditions of the TV studios. Aswarm with crewmen, performers, musicians, cameras, cables, dollies, cranes, lights and scenery, the studios are about as compatible to quality sound reproduction as the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. would...
...entered Wellington Harbor, only a mile from its destination, the two-year-old ship was blown onto a reef. Water gushed through a hole in the hull. Then, after the Wahine floated free, it suddenly lurched over on its side into the water. Panic seized the 676 passengers and crewmen...