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...during practice firing on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa, the Navy presented one of the heroes of | the disaster at a press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill...
Before he could enter the Aspen Hotel in Parsippany, N.J., where the meeting was held, Rawl had to run a gauntlet of hundreds of angry demonstrators, some chanting, "What do you do with a drunken sailor? Make him skipper of an Exxon tanker!" Environmental activist Barry Commoner summed up the spirit of the crowd when he declared, "We are here to pass judgment on a crime against nature and the American people...
...tournament game, you're not going to let [a layoff] bother you," Princeton Coach Chris Sailor said...
...definitely a different team," Sailor said. "We went into that game thinking we could win, but we were a bit tentative. Since then we've had some big wins [including a victory over the tournament's top seed, Penn State]. We're hoping to show Harvard a different team...
...Zealand, which will host the next competition in 1991, and torpedoed San Diego's hopes for a $1.2 billion bonanza during the six-month competition. Conner, ironically, was in New Zealand last week filming a commercial for a new board game called Cup Fever. "I'm a sailor," he declared. "It offends me to see attorneys debating America's Cups in the courts. The Cup should be fought on the water." Amen...