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...late. Hopefully, Captain Phelan asked T-AKL 17 to stand by through the night; he thought his tower would hold together and that his men could get off on Wasp helicopters in the morning. But in the morning all that could be recovered was the body of Master Sergeant Troy Williams floating in the fast-running sea. Wasp with its destroyer guard searched through a long two days. Divers investigated tapping sounds coming from the twisted underwater wreckage. But there were no survivors. The sounds that might have been made by men hanging on in some submerged air pocket were...
Earlier, the varsity had finished third in the R.P.I. Invitational Tournament in Troy, N.Y., missing a second place tie by allowing one more goal than New Brunswick, which also posted a 1-1-1 record...
MANI, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Mani is a desolate Greek district, which modern civilization has not yet touched, whose poverty-stricken people are the descendants of the Spartans and still speak familiarly of Helen of Troy. British Author Fermor describes their way of life and their dramatic, forbidding countryside with a knowledgeability and high style that make Mani the year's best travel book...
...Crimson opens the tournament in Troy, N.Y., with probably its toughest opponent of the three-day round-robin, R.P.I. and the varsity face off Wednesday night in a game that should prove the sextet's strength among the top Eastern teams...
...intrigued by the legend of Chryse, a skindiving Italian nobleman, the Marquis Piero Nicola Gargallo, set out to find the vanished island. A serious amateur archaeologist, Gargallo, 32, centered his search in the area favored by traditional archaeological opinion-near the Dardanelles, on the ancient Greek invasion route to Troy. For tips on the island's precise location, he reread the pertinent passages in Homer and other ancients. Then, studying a detailed British navy map, he came upon a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos, mentioned by Homer...