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...Pearl Harbor last week, the mighty aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise looked like a belated victim of Dec. 7, 1941. Huge holes yawned in the flight deck. Shards of steel plate and gobbets of demolished aircraft were littered across the 41-acre deck. Cables dangled over the side, and the flattop's freshly painted grey hull was blackened and blistered. Said Samuel Spencer, who has been a Pearl Harbor shipyard rigger since the Japanese attack: "This is the worst condition I've seen a ship in since World...
...seaborne air-power to be a major threat in case of all-out war, one of their favorite tricks is to harass and probe U.S. carriers. Soviet destroyers and trawlers try to break a carrier's screen of protective smaller ships in order to force the flattop to change course while launching or landing aircraft and thus maybe dump a few planes into the sea. In the air, bombers of the Soviet navy^s 750-plane, land-based air force continually test to see how close they can approach U.S. carriers before they are detected by radar and intercepted...
Husky, easygoing, and seemingly unperturbed by the fact that he has been blind ever since early childhood, Watson, 44, is a regular country-music Segovia. His casual, clean-cut virtuosity on the "flattop" (nonelectric) guitar is little less than awesome as he drives through such standards as Black Mountain Rag and Nashville Blues. His voice curls reedily and winsomely around Matty Groves, reminding some of the young Burl Ives. The only difference: Watson sings on pitch...
When the 85,350-ton flattop was christened in 1960, skeptics questioned whether the Enterprise's atomic propulsion could justify the added cost ($150 million). Last week, after 4½ months of combat duty off Viet Nam, the Big E-along with the only other nuclear vessel in the war, the destroyer Bainbridge-won straight A's from the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Both ships' performances had amply demonstrated the tactical advantages envisioned by their planners: high speed and the priceless asset of being able to cruise as long as four years without refueling. Because...
...Treatment. A Texas-born Annapolis graduate (class of '28), Raborn started out in World War II as an aviator, later became executive officer of the flattop Hancock. When a kamikaze pilot plowed into the Hancock's flight deck off the coast of Japan in April 1945, Raborn got the deck patched up in four hours - in time to permit the carrier's planes to land safely from a mission. He won a Silver Star for his effort...