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Doctor's Orders. The astronauts tended to their equipment that floated about weightless. When they dumped urine overboard, the particles froze in the cold vacuum and sparkled like a roman candle as they drifted by. The men tried to nap. But when one stirred in the cramped quarters, the other woke up. "We don't like to see them so fatigued at so early a point in the flight," said Dr. Charles Berry, chief space-flight surgeon. The doctor's orders: Get more sleep. "I try to," yawned Conrad, "but you guys keep giving us something...
...special flotation material. Manry napped during the day and sailed at night so that he could signal away ships that might otherwise have run him down in the dark. Even so, he said, "ever so often some great steamer would come bearing down." On several occasions, he was washed overboard in heavy seas; each time he hauled himself back aboard by a lifeline that tethered him to the boat or by grabbing the boat's rigging. Worst of all were his hallucinations, the result probably of taking too many benzedrine pep pills. Once he imagined that a "monster...
...story was headlined: "Hello Bob! See you soon." The Plain Dealer saw Bob sooner than it expected, and in the last place it wanted to see him: in the pages of the Press. There, in a long interview, the voyager told all: how he had been washed overboard six times, dodged sharks and dolphin in his small craft, suffered hallucinations of ghosts. The Press also ran color photos of the newsman-sailor, tanned, bearded and red-eyed. The trip had turned into a clear scoop for the Press, and the paper savored its revenge. The turnabout, however, had been engineered...
...that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death. At Ocean City, Md., not long ago, a tourist walked past the corpse of a mako lying on the dock, carelessly...
...prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks...