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Conrad took off from Casablanca last week with a whopping 5,000-lb. overall weight (the plane weighs 1,504 Ibs. empty). As his 500-gallon gas supply drained away, he throttled his engine back from 125 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., flew most of the way "right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break...
...their lives and drew $10 a day. As the cameras rolled, Realist Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress Dorothy Malone was trapped between sheets of boiler plate in a cabin awash with icy brine. Explosions were set off in the engine room, where a half acre of paintwork unexpectedly ignited and 30-ft. flames threatened all hands...
Government: Tapped by President Eisenhower as Under Secretary of the Navy in 1953, Republican Gates was promoted to Secretary when Charles Thomas resigned in 1957. Known as a black-shoe, sea-blue navyman at home either behind a desk or on a deck, he helped guide the Navy through its heady revolution from guns to guided missiles, from props to jets, from steam to atom power. Businessman Gates also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses...
Over Chicago a bright blue light hangs in the sky, visible 400 miles away. When dawn comes the light jades out in the sunshine, and the sky station stands revealed. It is a great, saucerlike disk supported in the high, thin air by whirling helicopter blades. On its deck perch radar antennas, turning ceaselessly. It stays up month after month. It has no fuel to be exhausted; its power is beamed to it from the ground...
...stinkpotters. some sailors claim, have demeaned all that is beautiful about life on the sea. They ignore the traditional rules of courtesy (always ask permission to come aboard, never wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...