Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SKIPPER CAMPBELL, 27, of Rayville, La., was driving toward Inverness on State Highway 49-W when the storm hit. "I think I'm a miracle," says Campbell. "It started raining real bad, and the wind was really blowing. I got into town and had to pull off the road. I pulled down the window and heard a drone like a million bumblebees come...
...people of Inverness were fortunate that Skipper Campbell survived the storm. As soon as it passed, he left his car, rushed to the nearby house, dug through the rubble and discovered the elderly black couple huddled under a table, unhurt...
Extra Poundage. Less than an hour later, the three Apollo 14 astronauts boarded the helicopter carrier New Orleans, stepped inside a mobile quarantine van and began their 2½-day journey back to Houston. "We have had a terrific flight," said Apollo 14's skipper, Alan Shepard. He and his fellow travelers were in high spirits and apparently good health, and doctors later discovered that Shepard had actually gained weight (1 Ib.) during his 941,825-mile journey. Indeed, the astronauts' condition-and the fact that no alien organisms had been found on the Apollo...
...time, some of Hoover's numerous critics dismissed his testimony as a grandstand play designed only to help him win funds for 1,000 extra FBI agents. Thomas Buck, 54, a writer and longtime friend of the Berrigans', accompanied Representative William Anderson, a Tennessee Democrat and former skipper of the submarine Nautilus, on a visit to Danbury shortly thereafter. "Dan said there was absolutely nothing to it," Buck reported. "Phil, who is given to putting things in a more earthy way, said it was all bullshit...
...North Atlantic fishing rights-between the two vessels in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod. The incident resulted in the suspension of Rear Admiral William B. Ellis, commander of the Coast Guard's First District in Boston, his chief of staff, Captain Fletcher Brown, and Vigilant's skipper, Commander Ralph Eustis. TIME Correspondent William Mader has continued probing what happened aboard Vigilant and has assembled this account...