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When he got to Honolulu's Tripler General Hospital, reports U.S. Army Surgeon Robert J. Hoagland in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, he discovered that the military community provided him with more than his share of such exasperating emergencies. Anxious to do something about his desperate patients, Dr. Hoagland suggested that emergency-room physicians try to combat coma with doses of "analeptics"-a class of drugs that includes Benzedrine and Dexedrine, and works by stimulating the central nervous system into a state of hyperwakefulness...
...American's Flight 843 waited at the end of the main runway at San Francisco's International Airport for takeoff to Honolulu. Aboard the Boeing 707 jet was a full complement of 143 passengers, a crew of ten, two tons of cargo and 13,384 gal. of fuel. At the controls, First Officer Fred Miller, 47, went through the pre-takeoff checklist with Captain Charles Kimes, 44, a freckled, sandy-haired veteran of 16,000 flying hours who had elected to let Miller handle the takeoff. Finally, the airport tower radioed: "Clipper 843 cleared for takeoff." Thirty-five...
...trick is to discover a need, then find a way to fill it. Don Over, 37, saw a need for a trade journal that would tell big builders what major construction jobs were up for bidding: he took over a failing Honolulu magazine and printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth...
...secret meetings behind the closely guarded doors of the War Room at Pacific Command Headquarters in Honolulu, the tough approach of the night hawks was implemented and re-emphasized: the U.S. not only will continue its military effort in Viet Nam, but has every intention of stepping...
...starting to look for a way out of continuing a more and more costly conflict (see THE WORLD). Keeping up the pressure, the U.S. made plans for an even greater expansion of its naval forces in the area, while top-level U.S. military officials prepared to fly to Honolulu at week's end for a conference on Far Eastern strategy...