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Flag-Draped Coffins. Again and again, volunteers donned oxygen equipment to go below into the stupefying heat in search of trapped shipmates. Some had to don scuba gear and swim through inky water that rose over their heads in the darkened passageways. They hauled to safety many men who were horribly injured, unconscious or so broken by shock that they could not comprehend where they were. Not until after 3 p.m., more than seven hours after the flares first began their still unexplained sputtering, was the last small smoldering fire extinguished...
...Siday's work unique is that he does not write solely for conventional musical instruments. Nearly all of his stuff is composed of electronically produced signals combined in varieties of ways and put on tape. And he does it all with $60,000 worth of space-age sound gear that he keeps in his Manhattan apartment...
...Rabbits. Air Force One was loaded with Texas-sized steaks, low-calorie Dr. Pepper soda, tapioca pudding, and tons of communications gear. Ahead flew a jet cargo plane carrying the bubble-top limousine and the Secret Service's ponderous "Queen Mary." Behind flew two jets with 130 newsmen. Below, U.S. Navy vessels were strung out at protective intervals of 100 miles; all land-based U.S. military establishments en route were on alert until the presidential craft passed...
...three-piece wine-red velvet getup might have sold well in London's Carnaby Street. As it happened, the gear was up for grabs on more conservative New Bond Street, where Sotheby's was auctioning off a suit worn by King...
...patch of the 45,000-sq.-mi. Tonkin Gulf from which U.S. Task Force 77 launch es its air strikes on North Viet Nam. Ever since the 33-ship force arrived, it has been tailed by one or another of the snoopy Soviet trawlers. Equipped with sophisticated electronic gear, the Russian "skunks" (as they are pungently known in Navy parlance) keep a close watch on U.S. air operations, flash their information to beleaguered Hanoi, and do their best to monitor the radars and radios of American ships and planes. From time to time, they make a dash...