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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Soviet Union's Lomonosov, the best-equipped and largest oceanographic vessel in the world, pipes aboard the cameras of CBS for a permitted look around. Also, the program shows the work of patrol planes keeping watch on Russian trawlers in the North Atlantic...
...mother-to-be, as limned in the great glossy pages of ladies' magazines, is a veritable vision of delight. She is tastefully referred to as The Lady in Waiting, even occasionally as A Sacred Vessel; never said to be pregnant, she is merely awaiting The Experience. While awaiting, she does marvelous things like work in the garden; in her superbly tailored slacks and shirt, she looks jaunty enough for a cruise; nothing could ever make her nauseated. Or she finishes the velvet slippers she is whipping up for Dad; all embroidery done during The Period of Expectancy is performed...
...Havana, two U.S. Marine Phantom interceptors scrambled from Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West. The Marines raced toward the MIGs at 1,600 m.p.h., met them near the boat, some 60 miles north of Cuba, within five minutes. They saw the MIGs fire at the stricken vessel, radioed Boca Chica for instructions. Four more Phantoms were dispatched...
...itself has just six destroyers, of which four are slow and nearly obsolete. The only hope was the U.S. A day passed, then a second and a third, with only a false report of a sighting. Radio Havana weighed in with an offer of asylum for the hijackers; the vessel, said Castro gleefully, would be turned over...
...question was how to stop the Anzoátegui. Navy planes flashed blinker signals ordering the vessel to head for Puerto Rico. No answer from the Anzoátegui, as it plowed steadily southward toward Brazil, where, in the words of a government official, "asylum is a Brazilian tradition.'' When the hijackers ignored the orders to change course, the planes swooped down to fire rockets nearby. The hijackers seemed to be in for a rough time...