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Sand and a fine salt spray sliced into the open Jeep, and the driver and three passengers scrootched deeper into their parkas. A voice cried "Onward!" And the Jeep scuffed up Cape Cod's North Beach. The leader's black-gloved hand shot up, and the Jeep stopped. He aimed a long-lens camera out to sea as the eyes of his companions followed. One man fumbled with a fowling piece, then dropped it when the leader mumbled something. Another scribbled on a tiny note...
...Adair's battle plan calls first for bulldozers to push several steel huts up close to the fire. From these, Gassi Touil roustabouts will spray water high into the air to form a cooling curtain for Adair and his men as they move in to attach hooks to the twisted remains of GT-2's rig and blown-out pipe, and winch the debris out of the way. Then a bulldozer will maneuver explosives on the end of a 200-ft. boom right up to the flames. If all goes right, the blast will snuff out the fire...
...guns and rockets of its shepherding ships for survival in the age of the atom and the missile. The Enterprise is specially reinforced to withstand nuclear attack, can seal itself off below the hangar deck to avoid fallout, and has a washdown system to sluice away the spray from atomic near misses...
...agriculture is bad in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, it is catastrophic in Red China. Two Chinese pilots, whose job it was to spray farms in Shantung province with insecticides from a light plane, fled to South Korea. Last week in Seoul, they told reporters that life for the average Chinese peasant is "indescribably miserable" and that, even in once-fertile Shantung, so many are dying of starvation that they are being buried in mass graves...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). PREMIERE of a string of half-hours in which Brinkley will be allowed to spray his acerbic wit. This week's target: roadside billboards. Color...