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Hennesey (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. in an episode about the misadventures of a Navy frogman aboard a submarine...
...water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died soon after a frogman hauled him to the surface...
...Navy joyfully jumped to the rescue. Aboard the Haiti Victory, 100 miles away, observers pinpointed Discoverer's position by radar, dispatched a helicopter to the scene. As the helicopter hovered 10 ft. above the choppy Pacific, Frogman Robert Carroll leaped into the ocean, strapped a cable to the bobbing satellite and gave the signal to lift away. Discoverer XIII-"Lucky Thirteen"-had returned safely to earth. Said Lockheed's Missile Chief Herschel Brown: "The U.S. has accomplished an unprecedented first. The Russians have attempted a recovery orbit and failed. We have succeeded-and we feel pretty darned good...
...Frogman Morgan wears a gold-plated .45 with a bullet ready in the chamber. Tommy-gun-carrying bodyguards follow him around. He and his Cuban bride live in a six-room apartment on Havana's waterfront Malecón drive. It has 18 bunks, where the frog-farm workers, who call him "William,'' sleep whenever they come to town. His U.S. citizenship was lifted for fighting in a foreign army, and he laments that he is "running out of countries." But he professes optimism about his future in Cuba, even though "Fidel and Raúl know...
...circumstances." Adenauer observed: "Everyone knows that aircraft have been flying at high altitudes over several countries for years . . . I have knowledge that the Russians are flying over our territory as well." In Britain, former Ambassador to Russia Sir William Hayter reminded his countrymen of the embarrassing disappearance of British Frogman Lionel Crabb (TIME, May 21, 1956) during the 1956 B. & K. visit to London. Said a senior civil servant: "Let's face it. Everybody does these jobs. We live in a bloody wicked world...