Word: station
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...scruffiest vessels in the U.S. Navy. The U.S.S. Conserver is a rust-pitted, rickety tug, built in 1945 and capable of a scant 14 knots ("with plenty of wind and a little bit of lying"). Nonetheless, it managed to close on the trawler's starboard side and station itself between the Russian and the carrier, thus averting, if not a collision, then at least an embarrassing change of course on the carrier's part. Frustrated, the Russian ship went back to sniff among the flotsam...
Rules of the Road. It was another typical day on Yankee Station, the patch of the 45,000-sq.-mi. Tonkin Gulf from which U.S. Task Force 77 launch es its air strikes on North Viet Nam. Ever since the 33-ship force arrived, it has been tailed by one or another of the snoopy Soviet trawlers. Equipped with sophisticated electronic gear, the Russian "skunks" (as they are pungently known in Navy parlance) keep a close watch on U.S. air operations, flash their information to beleaguered Hanoi, and do their best to monitor the radars and radios of American ships...
...Cyrillic letters of its name. U.S. helicopters hovered overhead, watching the Russians watching them, and a Navy resupply ship circled near by while its band serenaded the Gidrofon with strident capitalist rock 'n' roll. No sooner had the Gidrofon left than a new trawler appeared on Yankee Station: the Ampermetr. The Conserver was also relieved; Hilder and his crew set off for some well-deserved R and R in Hong Kong, and a fresh set of skunk chasers took over the watch...
From the airport, the troops fanned out through downtown Kano, hunting down Ibos in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their Land Rovers to the railroad station, where more than 100 Ibos were waiting for a train, and cut them down with automatic-weapons fire...
Sensitivity training is in the same mode as group therapy, which is probably the most important U.S. contribution to psychotherapy so far. On a TV program called Therapy, carried by Los Angeles station KHJ, groups have been airing their neuroses since mid-July before an estimated 110,000 viewers. Each 45-minute installment is entirely authentic, culled from a video-taped therapy session two to three hours long, complete with real tears, confessions and accusations (obscenities are blipped out). These sessions, of course, are professionally guided, but their exposure on television contributes mightily to do-it-yourself analysis...