Word: ship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest commercial airport, sometimes was logging two-hour tieups. One frustrated Detroit-bound passenger decided to drive instead-and almost beat the plane. An English tourist in Los Angeles sampled U.S. airline hang-ups and threatened to take a ship home through the Panama Canal. A pilot flying from Bermuda to New York advised passengers on takeoff-accurately, as it turned out-of his three-hour flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay...
...Force in South Viet Nam's canal-laced Mekong Delta, it soon became obvious that servicing the mini-flotilla was a maxi-headache. Riverine's little boats would slip into the maze of marshlands for long patrols, far from the medical and military aid of the mother ship anchored in one of the larger rivers. The most obvious means of supply was by helicopter, but most of the Delta is too wet and soft to support the weight of a chopper...
...Michael Dunn (Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Ship of Fools), who missed the Baltimore meeting. He was in Europe making a movie...
...March 1945, a Japanese bomber smashed two bombs into the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin. "O'Callahan was everywhere," wrote the navigator of Lieut. Commander Joseph O'Callahan, the ship's Roman Catholic chaplain. Besides ministering to the wounded, O'Callahan manned a fire hose, going into an oven-hot turret to cool off the ammo to throw it overboard. For this Father O'Callahan, who died in 1964, became the only chaplain in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S...
Frewen was still in good spirits when it came time to leave England. Farewelling boozily with his hunting and gambling friends and with the actress Lillie Langtry, a mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board...