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Quebec City was an armed camp. On roads leading into the French Canadian provincial capital, police flagged down motorists and searched their cars. The airport and railway station swarmed with plainclothesmen. On the cliffs overlooking the St. Lawrence River, khaki-clad Canadian army troops took their positions while Navy frogmen ran a final check for mines in the dock area of Wolfe's Cove. Yellow police barricades lined the city streets, and knots of helmeted riot police stood ready. Their orders were clear: all demonstrations were banned...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Report on the U.S. Navy training program for frogmen and sea-land-air teams. Repeat...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A documentary, "Frogmen of the Future," on underwater training techniques taught by the U.S. Navy...
While Sigma 7 bobbed on the little waves of the sunlit Pacific, Schirra reported by radio that he was dry and comfortable and would prefer to be picked up while still in his own ship. "A sweet little bird," he remarked. Helicopters dropped frogmen into the water, and they attached inflatable tubes to keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch...
...troops were committed to the rescue operations. Even floatable barrels were pressed into service to save flood victims. German air force planes dropped 350,000 sandbags to plug holes in the dikes; helicopters fluttered over drowning villages picking up survivors and dropping milk for starving infants. In Hamburg, Danish frogmen dived beneath the waters to hunt for bodies: for six hours two Bundeswehr soldiers stood in shoulder-deep water holding two children piggyback. The parents of the children finally succumbed to exhaustion and slipped beneath the flood tide. It was so cold that many people froze to death on rooftops...