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...Chickering accompanied the U.S. Navy task force when it bombarded the Gilbert Islands and was with the Marines when they landed on the Treasury Islands. And when General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines at Leyte, Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled "How to Be Unafraid in Warfare, Though Panic-Stricken," in which he poked fun at some of the risks...
...offer from the Soviet barnstormers is for the well heeled, not the fainthearted. For a mere $10,000, the American air-show buff can now buy a few minutes of thrills as a passenger in a MiG-29 Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...
...subconscious. New groups such as Fishbone, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More are shaking and breaking, and one of the wildest, Jane's Addiction, just sold out its Madison Square Garden show. "Rock 'n' roll may have been taking a backseat," says ; Kendall Jones, the intrepid lead singer of Fishbone. "But it's redefining itself. We have no rules. We'll play any kind of music we want...
...Wednesday, our intrepid reporter photographed Stone emerging from the closed-door meeting in New York. "Take his film," Stone commanded a startled nearby security officer, momentarily forgetting about that pesky old Bill of Rights...
...ended up at Circle Towing in Fairfield. The intrepid reporters walked two miles to reach the nearest train station and reached New York in time to cover a search committee meeting...