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...suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white sailor for the sabotage. And the skipper of the ill-fated Constellation, while discussing his racial problems, admitted to newsmen that some of his ordnance-handling equipment had been tampered with; other pieces had simply disappeared over the side...
Died. Uffa Fox, 74, yachtsman and boat designer whose trim, seaworthy craft and how-to books on boating helped popularize the sport throughout Britain; of a heart attack; in Worcestershire, England. A salty, pub-loving sailor and longtime racing companion of Prince Philip's, Fox designed dozens of craft ranging in size from dinghies to 37-ft. planers. His most important innovation: a self-righting, self-bailing lifeboat that during World War II was parachuted to airmen downed...
...meet was designed to give experience to the never skipper. The Tufts coach felt that his second best skipper needed some experience winning, and his sailor responded by sweeping his division in the two-man dinghies...
Died. Max Fleischer, 89, dean of movie cartoonists, who in the '20s and '30s brought to the screen Popeye the Sailor, Betty Boop and the "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon series; in Los Angeles. Fleischer's first animated feature, made in 1917, took a year to create and ran less than one minute. During the next two decades he acquired more than two dozen patents for his technical production innovations, which helped make animated cartoons a major part of the movie industry...
...narrator, Marjoe Gortner, has been a foot-hopping, finger-jabbing, Jesus-peddling evangelist for more than half of his 28 years, starting at the tough age of 3½. At four, the curly-coiffed, dandied-up moppet stirred up headlines and a legal ruckus by marrying a young sailor and his girl in a California wedding.* Now he is a sensation in a devastating and disturbing film that casually tears away the "facade of holiness" that has been Marjoe's evangelical life...