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...four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival and medical care...
GUSTAV HOLST: A CHORAL FANTASIA/ PSALM 86 AND GERALD FINZI: DIES NATALIS (Everest). An opportunity to compare two widely diverging paths in modern vocal music. Hoist is sophisticated and eclectic: his bold Fantasia has a concerto-like role for the organ along with choral and solo sections; in the Psalm, he spins a gossamer a cappella prayer. By contrast, Finzi's quiet music comments on the lyrics, in this case Metaphysical Poet Thomas Traherne's musings on the innocence and beauty of children. Tenor Wilfred Brown's impeccable diction helps to make this a delightfully accessible, intimate...
This week workmen will hoist the final structural steel beam into place for Atlanta's 26-story Life Insurance Co. of Georgia building. Los Angeles will celebrate the similar "topping out" of its tallest building yet, the 42-story, $30 million Union Bank Square. In Manhattan, wreckers have just begun smashing a ramshackle clutch of century-old eyesores to make room for the world's highest skyscrapers, the twin 110-story 1,350-ft. structures of the Port of New York Authority's World Trade Center.* Boston's State Street Bank & Trust Co. is busy shifting...
...surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact and constituted no radiation danger, it was to be winched aboard the U.S.S. Hoist. By special order of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the bomb was to be shown to members of the press and photographed-the first time in history that the U.S. was dropping the top-secret wraps that surround its current nuclear weaponry...
Finally, at week's end the sea calmed, and little Alvin at last succeeded in slipping a line around the bomb without sending it tumbling down the underwater hill. Ever so gingerly, the U.S.S. Hoist began to drag the bomb up the slope. The bomb had just begun to budge when suddenly the steel cable snapped. Fortunately, the bomb settled near its old position. Admiral Guest ordered his men to try again...