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...days later, manned by a crew of 80 that included a twelve-piece band, Angelita steamed into Los Angeles harbor, sideswiped a dock and stove in a lifeboat. Registered as a naval vessel, it dodged $18.25 a day in dock fees, though the only visible armament was a line-throwing gun. Caterers began loading on such supplies as champagne and cracked crab, and the master came aboard-but in bad temper from all the publicity. "Zsa Zsa Gabor is not giving a party on my boat," Ramfis snapped. "We will entertain." an aide explained, "but the general will...
...weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will...
...fire sirens wailed and choking smoke poured through the ship, a few men passengers panicked and rushed into the lifeboats ahead of sobbing women and screaming children. When they ignored orders to get out, they were knocked unconscious by crew members and dragged back on deck. But after that, the ship was. abandoned in perfect order. In 35 minutes the Skaubryn was roaring from end to end like an acetylene torch, but every passenger and seaman was in the safety of lifeboats on the calm sea. As long as they were able, the two radio operators sent out SOS signals...
Some 25 managed to board the one lifeboat that was left intact; ten more climbed into a damaged one. Several times during the long night that followed, rescue vessels passed close by, unable to hear the survivors' frantic calls for help, which were swallowed in the roars of the still raging sea and wind. In the damaged lifeboat, five men died of exhaustion and exposure during the next 54 hours. By the third morning the remaining five, living armpit-deep in water, were almost too weak to move. That afternoon, as if by magic, the great steel...
...rescue vessels helicopters from shore appeared at the call of Stockholm. One snatched up three injured seamen, who were hurried to shore. Another gently hoisted the youngest casualty, four-year-old Norma di Sandro, whose skull was fractured, possibly when she was dropped from Andrea Doria into a lifeboat. (She died next day at Boston's U.S. Public Service Hospital.) By 5 a.m. only Captain Calamai and a score of his crew were still aboard Andrea Doria, still trying to level her with auxiliary pumps. At 7 a.m. they admitted defeat, were taken off. Three hours later, while silent...