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...worth vastly enhanced by wartime earnings, Onassis in 1946 married the younger daughter of Stavros Livanos, then one of the most powerful of the Greek shipping magnates. (Another Livanos daughter subsequently married and divorced Niarchos, now 59, whose tanker fleet today is reputed to be larger than the Onassis flotilla.) Athina ("Tina") Livanos Onassis was only 17 when she married the stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) Greco-Argentine; she bore him two children: Alexander, now 20, and Christina...
...just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...another day, the rising sun was just beginning to shimmer over the Long Tau when Chief Signalman Bob Monzingo clamped on the black beret worn by U.S. Navymen in Viet Nam, stepped aboard PBR (Patrol Boat River) 756 and headed for a rendezvous with the fully loaded U.S. tanker Kalydon. So did the Viet Cong. Three hours later, the battle exploded. From the Long Tau's east bank, ambushers fired five Communist-made B40 rockets at the tanker. All five missed, and Monzingo's two-boat force foamed toward the attackers, blasting away with M-60 machine guns...
...lieutenant colonel commanding the 37th Battalion of General George S. Patton's 4th Armored Division, Abrams was Patton's point man, led the victorious Allied sweep across Europe from France to Czechoslovakia in 1944-45. Abrams was the only tanker, in fact, who Patton ever admitted might be his equal. In the lead tank of the 37th sat Abrams himself, often far out in front of the nearest U.S. units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam...
Resorting to emergency techniques much the same as those used recently in Puerto Rico, British cleanup squads sprayed detergents along the coast of Cornwall after the tanker Torrey Canyon went aground last year. Scientists now report that the detergents did more damage to marine life than...