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...eyed after two days without sleep, stocky, sandy-haired Rear Admiral William Guest ordered crewmen on the sea-stained, 2,100-ton submarine rescue ship U.S.S. Petrel to start heaving in on the winch. Four cold, tense hours later, as dawn exploded over the Mediterranean horizon, the sunken 2,800-lb. H-bomb that had defied every attempt at retrieval for 80 days splashed out of the water onto the Petrel's fantail...
...grey parachute. The recovery plan called for nudging the bomb along the sea's bottom for some distance until it rested on level ground. When that was done, the Alvin would use her claw to slip a cable around the bomb, and the U.S.S. Hoist would winch it on board for immediate trans port...
...from a U.S. captain whose Thunderchief jet was shot down over the tangled jungle near Quangkhe. Sighting a signal fire that the captain had resourcefully lighted on the bank of a stream, one Huskie descended to 100 ft., hauled the captain into the chopper with a steel cable and winch. As he scrambled gratefully aboard, the rescued pilot cried to the crew, "I love you, I love...
...Loeb began to make people nervous before it was completed. During the '50s Harvard drama had flourished in Aggasiz and the House dining halls. Producing organizations abounded--and were constantly in debt. The Loeb, it was feared, with its moveable stage, its novel winch system, its fancy lighting board, would destroy the esprit and the air of crisis that had given so many shoestring productions their vitality...
...wives like to fatten their husbands? Yes, says West-for the slaughter. In one of his stories, wives hold a fattest-husband-of-the-year contest. The overstuffed husbands are hauled to a stadium in gaily draped trucks, then hoisted by a winch to a platform, where they are weighed in turn. For a reward, the winner is cooked and eaten by the admiring assembly...