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...strange case of U.S. v. Escamilla began July 16 on Fletcher's Ice Island, which the U.S. Air Force named T3. In carrying out meteorological and oceanographic experiments on T3, a joint Government-industry team of 19 technicians had endured months of loneliness and Arctic temperatures as low as -60° F. While colleagues partied in a nearby shelter, Electronic Technician Mario Escamilla sat in his insulated trailer-style living module and guarded a 15-gallon jug of homemade raisin wine. When a reveler came by to claim a share, Escamilla brandished a loaded .30-.30 rifle and chased...
Just One Catch. A few minutes later, Bennie Lightsy entered the module to reason with Escamilla. Lightsy, a meteorologist who headed the T-3 operation, was an old friend. But Escamilla continued to shout and wave his rifle; outside, Richard Scattolini was walking toward the shelter. A few feet from the door, Scattolini heard a rifle shot. He rushed in and found Lightsy lying on the floor with a bullet in his chest. Within half an hour, Lightsy was dead of massive hemorrhages...
Carmen (Andy Griffith; Capitol). The slow-talking star of No Time for Sergeants does one of his wide-eyed explanations, this time of grand opera. The singers, he drawls, are high-priced and have "high roofs to their mouths." As for Carmen, she's "looking at this 'Escamilla' like she was stuck on him, and you can see why ". . . because he's a rale spowart. He lives about as far up town...