Word: halstead
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...members of a new breed, more sophisticated and less rambunctious than their predecessors, perhaps, but as competitive. For Hannifin, the romance of air travel has not been lost. Says he: "There is still a grand sense of freedom in the air." Must be. TIME's Photographer Dirck Halstead averaged 1,760 air miles a day for eight days to take the color pictures for our story. And, despite the crowds, Halstead still likes flying. Jerry Hannifin understands that...
From the moment he started his six-week odyssey, the main characteristic that impressed him was the pride of the men−pride in themselves and in their ships. To photograph the U.S. Navy for this week's cover story, TIME'S Dirck Halstead traveled from Norfolk, Va., to Pensacola, Fla., San Diego, Calif., Pearl Harbor and be yond. Everywhere he went he found officers and men eager to demonstrate what their ships could...
Somewhere off Pearl Harbor, the crew of the high-speed Pegasus put their ship through its paces so that Halstead, hovering in a helicopter, could get a glimpse of the Navy of the future. To photograph one of the new Spruance destroyers, Halstead was hoisted up a 150-ft. mast by crane and perched on a 16-in.-wide platform. To capture the magnitude of the Lexington, he was taken in a small boat across the bow of the mighty ship so that he could shoot up at the great gray mass, a view akin to the cover painting...
...assignment was far from Halstead's first encounter with the U.S. military. He covered the arrival of the Marines in Viet Nam in 1965, and he was there to witness their departure a decade later. Early one morning aboard the Lexington, Halstead watched Captain Eugene McDaniel walking his flight deck. McDaniel had been shot down during the Viet Nam War and spent six years in a prison camp, but not only was he still in the Navy, he was still flying while serving as the skipper of the Lexington. "There was a ghostly fog rolling in," recalls Halstead...
...Club for the cover story "Hypertension: Conquering the Quiet Killer." Three other TIME staffers and contributors last week received Page One awards from the Newspaper Guild of New York. They are: Associate Editor Burton Pines, for a report on the growing conflict between rich and poor nations; Photographer Dirck Halstead, for his color treatment of new international beauties; and Photographer Ken Regan, for his color photos of Boxer Chuck Wepner. The Newspaper Guild of New York also presented TIME itself with an award for the outstanding quality of its Indochina reporting last year...