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VIDEO-GAME VERITE Video games are pushing the boundaries of realism--and budgetary constraints. By the time Sega's Shenmue for Dreamcast hit the U.S., it cost the company nearly $80 million. Part of the challenge was to create an interactive version of a city--in this case, Yokosuka, Japan, ca. 1986--in which you can knock on virtually every door on every street. What's next? Maybe your front door...
...Force recruiting office in Merced, Calif. The recruiter was out to lunch, so she wandered into a nearby Navy office and signed up, lured by the promise of overseas adventure. She went on to officers' school in Newport, R.I., then landed in a Navy personnel office in Yokosuka, Japan. Once again, McGrath started daydreaming. "I was proofreading stuff that I really didn't understand," she says. "I wasn't doing what I had trained for--navigating, driving boats, seamanship and engineering." She hitched a ride on a Navy support vessel touring the region. "They had me stand watch...
...Officers School. All 17 slots set aside for women had been filled. That school would have prepared her to sail on a support vessel--one of the tenders, oilers and suppliers that women were then confined to. But she was already setting her sights higher. After sailing out of Yokosuka on a visiting frigate, McGrath was more determined than ever to serve on a warship. "It was a lot more fun, like driving a sports car," she says. "They go fast, handle better, and they're sexy and glamorous...
...BOMBINGS WERE NOT JUST THE END of a merciless clash of cultures [V-J Day, Aug., 7]. They were also the beginning of a human crisis called the nuclear age, beyond the differences in cultures and nationalities. HISASHI YUKIMOTO Yokosuka, Japan...
...left behind his wife Audrey and two sons, Sherman, now a California editor, and William H. III (born after his father's death), a Wisconsin physician, as well as an indelible impression on all those he had touched. After the war, the Navy named a movie theater on the Yokosuka base after him. When senior editor Barrett Seaman heard the story this week, he said, "I went to school with a William Henry Chickering. I'll bet he was this man's son." Barry made a telephone call, and the past opened up briefly for our generation working...