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...Overboard. Oddly enough, Heyerdahl had no trouble in raising his crew of five, all but one of whom were landlubbers and all itching to go. Herman Watzinger, an engineer, and Ethnologist Bengt Danielsson invited themselves when they heard about the stunt. Knut Haugland, Tor-stein Raaby and guitar-playing Painter Eric Hesselberg all jumped at the chance when they were asked. There is no indication, in the book at least, that they regretted it for a moment...
...Java, the five-month-old Indonesian Republic of President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir wanted full political independence, not dominion status in a Netherlands Commonwealth. According to the A.P.'s Vern Haugland, back from a tour of Java's hinterland, the Republic was well-entrenched and popular...
Very much the worse for his 47-day journey through New Guinea's tangled jungle, Vern Haugland (TIME, Oct. 1) awoke last week from a nine-day delirium, smiled and said: "Tell my mother I've been real sick...
...Haugland flipped a coin with an Australian correspondent for a seat on an outgoing U.S. Army bomber. The A.P. man won. The plane used up its gasoline bucking a tropical storm; Haugland and the crew bailed out at 13,000 feet. Eight days later two of the crew reached Port Moresby. Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled...
...Haugland turned up at a remote mission station on the southeast coast. Emaciated, exhausted, delirious and sick with malaria, he was flown to a Port Moresby hospital, where physicians predicted his recovery. How he had got through one of the earth's most rugged regions without benefit of maps, food, weapons, or military preconditioning, no one could tell. Haugland was too sick...