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...Fantail. The Conserver's C.O., Lieut. Commander Fred Hilder, 34, a plump, pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian, has deep respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...
...ship U.S.S. Petrel to start heaving in on the winch. Four cold, tense hours later, as dawn exploded over the Mediterranean horizon, the sunken 2,800-lb. H-bomb that had defied every attempt at retrieval for 80 days splashed out of the water onto the Petrel's fantail...
...bomb's debut was about as razzmatazz as a church-sponsored striptease. Its size and megatonnage were not announced, and technicians carefully covered all revealing parts with masking tape. What Spanish officials and 80 newsmen got to see on the Petrel's fantail-from 100 ft. away -was a slightly dented, porpoise-shaped, silver-colored tube about 10 ft. long. Just the way it looked in Thunderball...
Soon they were picked up by a Philippine merchant ship. He was sitting on the fantail of the ship when the enemy planes reappeared and began a bombing run. "Don't worry!" called the Philippine skipper. "They've been doing that all day long. They can't hit anything!" Replied Moorer: "We're not worried-yet!" But a direct hit changed his mind, and Moorer and his crew jumped overboard. Minutes later the merchant ship sank. Four men were killed, including one of Moorer's own men, but the 40 survivors rowed to a small...
...offenses. During the recently completed semester, two professors were let go: one, who lectured on hashish, was dismissed after some of his subject was found aboard; the other had violated university rules by entertaining students at jazz and beer parties in his office on the ship's fantail. All in all, says Roberta Mount, "it's really an educational trip...