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Furor. Interestingly, it was Warner himself who delayed taking any action about the sitdown of the Constellation's crewmen on the San Diego pier, thereby making the Navy seem even more permissive. Zumwalt's staff claims that he was on the point of sending a formal written protest to Warner when the Secretary finally acted and had the men bused off to their trials. Nevertheless it will inevitably be Zumwalt who will be hurt by all the publicity...
...middleclass. 'It seemed a good place to learn my job and advance my career,' said Captain Claude Hamilton, 28, of Waco, Texas." Asked about the dangers to civilians in the use of B-52s to bomb the heavily populated Mekong Delta (see box, next page), the crewmen insisted that if mistakes are made, it is the responsibility of faulty intelligence, not of the planes and the equipment aboard them...
...four-mile varsity race between 1882 and 1902; for each oarsman, a classmate was picked at random for comparison. Prout agrees that oarsmen seem to develop slow-beating "athlete's heart." But the oarsmen lived, on the average, at least six years longer. The 90 Harvard crewmen lived to an average age of 67.79 years, as against 61.54 for their nonrowing classmates, while the 82 Yale men did slightly better, living 67.91 years to their classmates' 61.56. Only half as many rowers died before age 60 as did nonrowers. Prout dramatized his thesis by digging up a picture...
...Airlines Boeing 737 in Sacramento. They demanded that $800,000 be delivered to them at San Francisco International airport and ordered the pilot to point a course for Siberia. The plane taxied to the isolated tip of Runway 19R, where it was finally stormed by FBI agents disguised as crewmen. The agents gunned down both hijackers, but during the Shootout, one passenger, E.H. Stanley Carter, 66, of Montreal, was also killed and two others were wounded...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced the loss of three more U.S. Air Force Phantom jets over North Vietnam, with all six crewmen missing...