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...skipper of the British sub, Commander Richard Wraith, the Bel-grano's movements seemed to indicate that the cruiser intended to close with the British fleet. TIME has learned the details of what happened next...
...life, its writhing and refugees. War made the adrenaline run, it gave life drama and meaning. The young went off to it with a Zouave gaiety. In our own time, we have expected our candidates for public office to have a war record. In his Inaugural Address, John Kennedy, skipper of PT109, called his a generation "tempered by war." Not every soldier, of course, went to battle with George Patton's mystic glee; he wrote his wife in 1944 that "peace is going to be a hell of a letdown...
Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...Thanks for the whitewash," the Nittany Lion coach said calmly to Harvard Skipper Dave Fish after the embarrassing loss. "I appreciate your team being so patient with...
...that, Mission Control gave the go-ahead for White Sands. On Columbia's 129th orbit of the earth, 14 more than planned, Lousma and Fullerton braked to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and began a long zigzagging descent over the Pacific. When a coastline finally appeared, Skipper Lousma cheerfully announced, "I think we're booming right over the Commander in Chiefs ranch right now." In fact, he was above Baja California, rather than the hills north of Los Angeles, site of President Reagan's retreat. Apparently he was still thinking of the glide path...