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...Harvard's eight crewmen have competed in previous McMillan Cup regattas. Skipper Carter Ford, relief helmsman John Marshall and foredeckman Mike Horn will be sailing for the third straight year...
Another club bound to fall is Milwaukee. New skipper Bobby Bragan inherits aging pitchers; Eddie Mathews, who hit a mere .265 last year; and the consistently strong Hank Aaron who will be flanked in the outfield by anybody who isn't in a slump at the time. If the Braves sink far enough, the Chicago Cubs will surge all the way to seventh. Ernie Banks holds down a solid infield, rookie Nelson Mathews should help fill in for George Altman, and the acquisition of Larry Jackson and Lindy McDaniel will add luster to the staff...
...skipper then takes his place in the control room, opens a lock, to which only he has the combination, on a red "fire" button. This sets off a carefully coordinated sequence in which at least 15 men are vitally involved. At last, Lacy pushes the red button-and holds it down. A console lights up: "Captain's permission to fire." The weapons officer, Lieut. Commander Russell McWey, shouts "Fire One." The ship's fire control supervisor presses his own "fire" button. A five-ton steel hatch opens on deck, and a burst of compressed air ejects...
...waved at him with an old green rag, and Paris [the boat's skipper, Paris Jackson, 44] waved at him with a pair of coveralls. He was so low I saw a black spot with an eagle-or maybe an animal of some kind-on the body. He flew around a lighthouse at Elbow Key and circled back. Then he started shooting. I could see the bullets spraying in the water on the port side, maybe a couple hundred yards away. Paris hit the deck. God, I was scared...
Despite his Romish ways, Father Kreinheder, 57, has a deeply rooted Lutheran faith; his father was a Missouri Synod pastor, and his mother's family founded a Lutheran congregation near Waynesboro, Va., before the American Revolution. After serving as the skipper of a subchaser during World War II, Kreinheder increasingly felt a vocation to the church, but found the opportunities within U.S. Lutheranism too restricted. Then he read (in TIME, Aug. 2, 1948) about the famed French Protestant religious community at Taiz...