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...looked positively ravaged. Mary Ann looks exactly the same, thank God. Ginger didn't look the same, but that might be because she was played by a different actress. (What else has Tina Louise got to do with her time?) It began with Gilligan snoring so loud that the Skipper couldn't sleep. Then this plastic thing dropped a gold disc into the lagoon (it was supposed to be a satellite, but the special effects didn't exactly rival Star Wars). Then there was a tidal wave (I'm leaving things out, but it doesn't really matter). They floated...
Precisely at 7 o'clock on a muggy, mosquito-filled evening, we pushed off from a south Miami marina and sped east into the open Atlantic, heading for the deepest reaches of the Gulf Stream. Our skipper was Pete Peacock, 41, a contractor by trade but a fisherman by avocation, one of the best in the Miami area. If anyone could find the big broadbill, it was Peacock. Two other fishing boats tagged along in convoy as we tore out of the Cape Florida Channel at 30 m.p.h. The CB radio crackled with reports of battles near...
...pair of sluggish old fishing boats were placidly trawling off the southern shore of Thailand on a moonlit night. Suddenly the fishermen spotted two dark silhouettes clipping toward them across the water. Skipper Kimheng Phonsawat, 47, did not wait to identify them. Crouching low over his wheel, he instantly directed both his boats to slash their nets and make for nearby Ko Kut Island at full throttle. "I could tell by the sound that the other boats had 300-h.p. engines," he recalled. "As one of them pulled alongside, we came under rifle fire." Three of Kimheng's crew...
...morning aboard the Lexington, Halstead watched Captain Eugene McDaniel walking his flight deck. McDaniel had been shot down during the Viet Nam War and spent six years in a prison camp, but not only was he still in the Navy, he was still flying while serving as the skipper of the Lexington. "There was a ghostly fog rolling in," recalls Halstead, "and there was McDaniel all alone with his ship. It was a very moving scene. YOU could feel his devotion to duty. This is what military service is all about...
...most extreme of all breaks from tradition is that the service now has 23,356 women in uniform. Some 20 of them are pilots and fly attack planes as well as transport and passenger aircraft. Other Navy women skipper ships. Boatswain's Mate Juanita Heaster, for instance, is based in Naples, Italy, where she captains a small vessel that ferries supplies out to larger warships. She says she gets "a thrill out of taking a boat out in the rough seas," but still feels a lack of equality. "The men think that women can't do the work...