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Sailors in the Seventh Fleet know the U.S.S. Ranger is one tough ship. Captain Dan Pedersen sets a high standard for discipline, and his aircraft carrier is well equipped to contend with those who fail to meet it. Persistent rule breakers are confined to the correctional custody unit (CCU), where they are subjected to "retraining"-a program of drills and indoctrination designed to reinstill the lessons of boot camp or, as one veteran puts it, "to make you feel stupid and look stupider." Further instruction may be given in the brig-a solitary cell where the diet is sometimes bread...
...London Times, in an editorial titled "Euthanasia for Eavesdroppers," urged British papers to refrain from publishing the transcripts even if Die Aktuelle did. Repeating bugged conversations, the Times said, would be the same as endorsing "a monstrous invasion of personal privacy." Some Fleet Street papers might not have felt constrained by this argument. But they faced a more formidable restraint than principle: the High Court ruling against Regan applied to publications as well. Thus on Saturday morning, though the story commanded headlines, not one paper printed the magazine's excerpts. The Guardian came close, paraphrasing portions touching on Prune...
...play of the day, however, belonged to Weller. With two out and nobody on in the sixth, and Brown's no hitter still a reality, the fleet flychaser ran halfway to Connecticut to flag down a Doucette liner to dead center. The ball probably traveled 400 feet, and Weller didn't get a great jump but ran and ran and finally caught up with it not far from the wall...
...Goose lives. The observer's first impressions are not just of size, but of trimness, tightness and fine lines. This is no "flying lumberyard," as the plane was derisively called during World War II when it was under construction as the prototype for what was to be a fleet of air-freighters. The Goose is an airship, dry-docked for the moment. The sum of the visitor's realizations comes to this: the plane could fly. Given a few weeks for testing and tuning up, it could still...
...flying boat wasn't Hughes' idea in the beginning. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to build a fleet of big planes in the early days of the war, when German submarines were sinking U.S. freighters in convoys headed for Britain. They were to be made of wood because aircraft aluminum was in short supply. Kaiser brought Hughes and the Government into the project, then eventually dropped out himself. Hughes' commitment to the plane was passionate. Even after the war ended he pushed on with construction, despite a nearly fatal crash in 1946 when...