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...other Texas boatmen are never threatened by such violence. So enticing is marina living that they never leave the slip all weekend long, as they sun on the boat deck, swim off the stern, and cook in the galley. To add to their comfort. Lake Texoma port authorities have come up with a novel, congenial, and undemanding way of fishing: the "Fisharena." This is a huge building built out over the lake, with a circular hole cut into the floor so that 500 anglers can fish the waters below at one time. In true Texas style, the Fisharena is heated...
From the Wastebasket. Sometimes in passages, sometimes in no more than a phrase, the book contains the entire Lowry life and legend. He was the rebel son of a prosperous English cotton-broker father, and he shipped to the Far East as a deck hand at 17 after reading O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees. The publisher lost the sea novel, Ultramarine, that Lowry wrote about his voyage, and Lowry rewrote the book from notes fished out of a Cambridge roommate's wastebasket. After graduating with honors in English, he drifted to Hollywood, New York...
Almost on the button waited the carrier Lake Champlain. Just before Shepard's launch, five Marine helicopters had buzzed from her deck to stand by for his arrival. Their crews had trained for a year for this moment; they were experts at hovering over a Mercury capsule, snagging it with a giant, steel shepherd's crook and getting its astronaut on board quickly. One of the skilled crook handlers, Lieut. George Cox, had fished the Astrochimp Ham out of the drink last...
...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...
Even after the tedious training paid off in a perfect flight, Shepard's ordeal was not over. "Debriefing" (Pentagonese for careful questioning) began the moment that he landed on Lake Champlain's deck. Doctors hustled Shepard to the admiral's cabin, where they first let him talk away his effervescent enthusiasm. Then, while tape recorders continued to catch every word, they began questions designed to collect scraps of information that the space traveler might have gathered. Relief came when Shepard was summoned to the bridge; President Kennedy was calling by radiophone from Washington...