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...down any lingering rumors of seasickness or distress on Malta's surging waves, Bush waxed eloquent about the night in the driving storm. "I loved it on the ship. We ate a wonderful dinner and had a good bottle of white wine. I went out on the fantail first, and for a couple of hours I watched those young boys working the anchor chains so skillfully in the high seas, and it was thrilling." That story undoubtedly will be enlarged and enriched as the years go on. Old sailors are just that...
...Force. The President's three Marine helicopters had been ferried in the belly of an Air Force transport and were waiting for him on the Malta ramps. From there the machines whirled him 50 miles to the aircraft carrier Forrestal, then settled him back feather-like on the fantail of the Belknap. Rubber-suited Marine divers bounced in dinghies along the tops of the rising waves, patrolling for any suspicious movement in adjacent waters. A shabby little barge, old tires festooning its scuffed sides, turned out to be in the employ of the Navy, the keeper of the communication cable...
...went. Challenger. NASA's Old Faithful. 74 seconds and a fantail of fire. Smoke-chain etched in a stratospheric crucifix. Death in living color in the age of the rocket...
...South Vietnamese helicopters were trying to get down onto the American flight decks that Navy crews simply pushed the landed choppers, one after another, into the sea in order to make way for the next--millions of dollars of American helicopters dumped over the side like garbage from the fantail. The spectacle became one of the last enduring images from history's most visual...
...flattens out the splash. This is shrimpboat country rock all right, but it's all cluttered up with the latest radar and range-finders (like manager Irving Azoff, who flies the Eagles among others), automatic net-spreaders (the Margaritaville sound, over and over), and a string quartet on the fantail. Now it's a matter of watching the gulls wing it for the garbage...