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...both the U.S. and Venezuela. The 2,800-man police force, the coast guard and about half of the army remained loyal.* Under its British-born commander, David Bloom, the coast guard blasted bridges and set off a landslide along the twelve-mile road between Teteron Bay and Port of Spain, thereby sealing off the mutineers from the capital. Loyal troops soon surrounded the Teteron Bay headquarters, but the rebels held some 30 soldiers and civilians as hostages...
...JOHN L. SWIGERT JR., 38, command-module pilot, has very little in common with the man he replaced beyond the fact that both are bachelors. Ken Mattingly is serious and studious. Swigert is a not-so-secret swinger with the reputation of having a girl in every (air) port. Swigert's favorite ploy, his friends say, is to invite girls to his apartment to see what he claims are his moon rocks. For all his bachelor antics, however, Swigert is a highly skilled former Air Force flyer and civilian test pilot with degrees in mechanical engineering, aerospace science...
...ship that has suffered an accident at sea, it is sometimes said, in the vocabulary of marine gallantry, that she came into port "under her own power." In any given season, a surprising number of crippled shows, often musicals, limp into Manhattan listing badly. For them, Broadway is not a safe haven, but a bone yard...
Sinuous Color. Wadleigh is equally successful at conveying the sociological aspects of the event through concise interviews with townspeople, festival organizers, police and members of the audience. Everyone from a chief of police to a maintenance man for the Port-O-San portable toilet corporation gets his say. Woodstock, however, is not an unrelieved celebration. For every shot of easy affection in the grass and innocent group bathing in the nude, there is a scene in the medical tent, or the ominous voice of the onstage announcers: "The word is that some of the brown acid being passed around...
...Israel has been careful not to hit Port Said or Alexandria, where Russians and Russian ships are concentrated. Will you be just as careful about Russians at the missile sites...