Word: ticonderoga
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...there it is!" shouted one of U.S.S. Ticonderoga's sailors. Barely four miles off the bow of the big carrier, Apollo 17's command ship America emerged from the puffy clouds, drifting easily under its three billowing orange-and-white parachutes. Then, while a television-equipped helicopter hovered almost directly above it to give the world its first bird's-eye view of a splashdown, the command ship dropped into the gently rolling Pacific. Less than an hour later, Apollo 17's three astronauts-Navymen Gene Cernan and Ron Evans and slightly seasick Civilian Geologist Jack...
Died. L. (for Lewis) Francis Herreshoff, 82, master yacht designer; in Boston. Most widely known for his do-it-yourself designs, Herreshoff built handsome wooden yachts, including Whirlwind, a 1930 contender to defend the America's Cup; and Ticonderoga, a trim, graceful 72-ft. ocean racer (built in 1936), which won the 1966 Transpac race from San Francisco to Honolulu...
...five minutes until the astronauts-strapped in upside-down and rapidly becoming queasy-righted it with three flotation bags. That brief misadventure could not come close to dampening the exuberance of Astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly as they arrived for their red-carpet welcome on the Ticonderoga's flight deck. "By golly," said Young, "you taxpayers-we taxpayers-got your money's worth...
...defense, Dr. Clay Wickham told the court that at the time the skin around Jensen's midsection had been covered with "a rash and boils," which would have made sex a painful enterprise at best. A character witness, Captain Thomas Loomis, who had served aboard the carrier Ticonderoga with Jensen, offered a well-meant if ill-phrased testimonial. Jensen, he said, was "the finest example of moral turpitude on the ship...
...even after President Johnson ordered a retaliatory attack against North Viet Nam and announced shortly after 11:30 p.m. (Washington time) on Aug. 4 that the U.S. was officially sending men into battle for the first time since the Korean War. A few minutes later, 64 jets from Ticonderoga and Constitution blasted five targets in North Viet...