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...supply routes, Navy A-6 jets took off from the carrier Enterprise by night and dropped mines to the bottom of the Song Ca and Kien Giang rivers. The U.S. uses several varieties of mines, which can be touched off variously by contact, by magnetic detection of a metal hull passing overhead, by sound, or even by the slight change in water pressure caused by any boat within range...
...flag, which has waved since Israel Merritt's day, a remarkable tradition will die. When the Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War, it was Merritt-Chapman that the U.S. Government called on to determine whether the mysterious blast came from inside the hull or outside. Investigators decided that it was external, but some historians still disagree. Years later, the organization was summoned to raise a far bigger hull, the capsized Normandie, which caught fire and turned over at a Manhattan pier during World...
...Hull always goes just fine-he has won the National Hockey League scoring title three times-while the Chicago Black Hawks got nowhere. In 40 years, they have never finished first in the N.H.L. There is always a first time though. As of last week, the Black Hawks had won or tied 15 of their last 16 games, led the second-place New York Rangers by 14 points with only 19 games to play...
...Hull, as might be expected, is still going well: he already has scored 37 goals this season. So, for that matter, are Chicago's two goalies, Glenn Hall and Denis DeJordy, who between them have allowed just 121 goals-lowest total in the league. Yet the man most responsible for the Black Hawks' surge is a pint-sized Czechoslovakian refugee named Stanislav Gvoth...
...best. An acrobatic skater and a slick stickhandler who plays on what Chicago Coach Billy Reay calls his "Scooter Line," Mikita was the league's No. 1 scorer (based on goals and assists) for two seasons running before losing the title last year to his teammate Hull. Mikita should have no trouble winning it back this year. Against the Detroit Red Wings last week, he scored one goal and an assist to run his league-leading point total to 76, a good 20 more than his closest competitor...