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...believes it crashed of natural causes, one might say--but one thing is sure; it was demolished. "The tail, that's the only thing you can see, sticking up in the jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American: and a Rhoedesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could...
Scanning a moving blip on the screen that indicated an airliner, Japanese defense command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew...
...students come from all over the United States and, in one case, from abroad. One third of them come from the Boston area; slightly more than one third from the Eastern seaboard including New York and New Jersey; and the remainder from the rest of the United States and Japan. Admission is selective...
...supposed to be just another Yale swimming meet. The Bulldog dynasty, beaten only once in its last 219 meets and untouched by Harvard since 1938, was once again the power in the Eastern Seaboard Swimming League...
McCarthy's student power came mostly from nearby Eastern Seaboard schools-Harvard, Radcliffe, Yale, Smith, Columbia, Barnard and such lesser-known institutions as Dunbarton, Belknap and Rivier-though some of his supporters arrived by Greyhound or jalopy from points as distant as Duke and the University of Michigan. All were soberly antiwar and anti-L.B.J. Many had demonstrated against the war at sit-ins or last October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that...