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...pull of a helicopter's cable. In this case its opening was disastrous. The sea was comparatively calm, but the Liberty Bell 7 was not built for seaworthiness with its hatch open. It wobbled, took in a surge of water and began to sink. Astronaut Grissom swam through the tepid water in his buoyant, silvery space suit, taking in great gulps of sea water dyed bright green to mark his landing. Though his remarks from the capsule at first led observers to believe that he had released the new-style hatch, Grissom later reported that he only meant...
...wish-fulfilling ideal becomes something more. It becomes convincingly real: "He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff, and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.... Then the fish came alive, with all his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great...
...reading about it in a newspaper. Alarmed, she cabled the White House, was assured that there was no need for her to cut her trip short and come home. So Jackie stayed on vacation. Clad in a modish dark blue bathing suit and a bright blue cap, she swam and water-skied in the Aegean Sea, while units of the Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine at the wheel. On her return to Washington, she found her husband waiting...
Last weekend President Kennedy took off for a brief rest at the Palm Beach villa of a friend, Charles B. Wrightsman. There, as he slept for up to twelve hours at a stretch and swam in a heated, salt water pool, his pain could be expected to ease-if, as his aides insisted, his new condition really had no connection with his old ailment...
...wealthy shipping magnate and a member of the Greek parliament, as substitute host. Nomikos put the North Wind and his villa in a seaside suburb of Athens (with a splendid, theatrical view of the distant Acropolis) at Jackie's disposal. While Jackie and her friends sunned and swam at the villa, units of the Greek navy patrolled the sea. a mile offshore, waving off intruders. When chartered yachts, full of newsmen, came too close, an excitable officer aboard a navy launch waved and shouted, "Not stop here! Not stop here! Mrs. Kennedy!" The helmsman left his wheel to join...