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FREDERICK A. WARD Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Virginia Beach...
Amid gentle swells 50 miles off the coast of North Viet Nam, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Oriskany swung north ward into the wind. Four A-4E Skyhawk jet bombers soared gracefully off the flight deck. At 7:38 a.m., four more were being readied in a hangar bay far below, when a shouting sailor burst from a 15-ft.-square locker near by. Be hind him was an ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began...
This savage indictment of U.S. medical practice forms the theme of The Doctors, a book probably headed for bestsellerdom. Its message seems to be that the ailing human being should keep his malaise a secret from the medical profession; otherwise, the doctor will surely blunder, the emergency ward will let him bleed to death, a careless hospital will expose him to infection and, if none of these death agents succeed, some nurse will administer a fatally inaccurate prescription...
...many cavers, it's this gruesomely different kind of environment which makes the sport fascinating. In Ward's Cave, N.Y., one of the easiest, there may be as many as sixty people inside at one time, stumbling around each other. As soon as a new cave is discovered, the crowds head...
...Knox, Ward's, Mitchell's -- these are the easy ones. There are harder ones--like McFail's. Just to get into McFail's you have to slide down a rope through a 45-foot pit, wearing a diver's wet suit. Then, you squeeze down a slim 55-foot vertical fissure, with your back pressed hard against one wall, your feet against the other, in turn lowering each a little...