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Nothing happened. He reeled in quickly, the plug streaking like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...
...spreading among the treetops], it won't stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters won control, and by midafternoon Deadwood's residents were told to come back home...
Charles H. Percy, already making his young man's mark at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras, optical equipment), went on duty in the Navy's purchasing offices, found that the torpedo sight his company was mass-producing for the Navy was useless. His blunt honesty in forcing fast cancellation of the contract so awed company officers that they later made him its president...
...midweek the Reds made their first serious effort to counter the new system, sent four fast torpedo boats out to intercept a pair of Nationalist LSTs. Before the Communist craft could reach their prey, Nationalist Sabre jets flashed down with cannon roaring and, by Taipei's count, sank three of the four. Angrily, the Communists hurled two waves of 16 MIGs apiece out to punish the Sabres. In the swirling dogfights that followed, four Nationalist pilots knocked down at least five MIGs, sent the rest hightailing home. The kills brought the Nationalist total to 17 MIGs in three weeks...
...years ago, tireless Inventor Link took up another hobby-deep-sea diving. Already, Link has co-developed a deep-sea diver's underwater scooter, a torpedo shaped like a hotel hallway's fire extinguisher that tows a diver along behind. Link is building a 91-ft. Diesel yacht specifically designed for undersea exploration with such gadgets as an underwater metal locater for hunting wrecks and buried treasure, so sensitive it picks up tin cans. Next year, Link hopes to use the boat to explore the sunken Roman seaport of Caesarea, off the coast of Israel...