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...barely managed to eject from his stricken F-4C Phantom fighter-bomber because of a serious injury to his right arm. A second pilot, Air Force Captain Wesley L. Rumble, 26, had gone down over Quang Binh province on April 28, 1966. The third man, Seaman Douglas B. Hegdahl, 23, had been rescued and captured by North Vietnamese fishermen in the Gulf of Tonkin on April 5, 1967, after he had fallen overboard from the cruiser U.S.S. Canberra while it was shelling the coast...
Married. Richard C. Pistell, 41, onetime merchant seaman who dropped anchor at Wall Street in 1948 with $50 in his pocket, now captains Goldfield Corp., one of the fastest growing and most aggressive conglomerates (TIME, May 9); and the Marquesa de Portago; both for the third time; in Manhattan...
...often reluctantly, the crewmen spoke of their captivity. There was even one light moment. Seaman Edward Russell said one North Korean guard asked him, "Do you have a car?" "Yes," Russell replied. "You lie!" the guard blurted. "President Johnson has all the cars...
...journal, scribbling away in the meridional heat like diary-addicted schoolgirls. Patiently, Blunden has stitched and embroidered it all together-Endeavor's, wreck on the Great Barrier Reef, refitting at Charco Harbour (socalled because the aborigines greeted them by shouting "Charco!"), the escape and return of a seaman named Saunders who lived with the natives for a while and discovered gold. The voyage also seems to have occasioned European man's first sight of the kangaroo (it was taken...
...William Willis, 75, solitary sailor who, just for the challenge of it, pitted his skill against the sea in small, hand-built boats; after his battered 11½-ft. sloop Little One was found empty 400 miles west of Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge...