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...Navy worked to recover the nuke, the shore side of the massive search was also drawing to a close. The Air Force, which recovered the three H-bombs that fell on land, had finished scraping 1,500 cu. yds. of contaminated topsoil into steel drums, was preparing to ship them aboard an American freighter to the U.S. for burial in the Aiken, S.C., nuclear-disposal plot. To celebrate an unpleasant job well done, the Air Force brought in a band that tootled prettily as airmen began striking their tent city near Palomares...
...problems. "Anyone lays a hand on the mayor gets shot," called a police detective from the sidelines as the game began. He was joking, but that was the end of the joke. Lindsay's Lancers played touch like a varsity of muggers. His Honor himself drew 15 yds. for nearly throttling the opposition quarterback, one radio writer landed in the hospital with a broken knee, and several others limped home with scars and loosened teeth. Lindsay, however, left the field without so much as a limp handshake...
...ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling 362,762 tons of fill, pouring 1,394 cu. yds. of concrete, finishing 504 lin. ft. of runway, erecting 474,460 sq. ft. of open and covered storage, crushing 4,806 tons of rock and building 3,840 sq. ft. of hospital wards...
...towed from South Carolina, arrived Oct. 30, and was in use 45 days later. To anchor it, caissons were sunk 138 ft. into the bay's sandy bottom; an 850-ft.-long causeway from shore to pier was fashioned out of 27,500 cu. yds. of rock that had to be blasted out of a nearby hill. "It was the most spectacular and important project we've had to date," said Colonel Hart. It also was one of the most urgently needed: before the new pier was put in use, as many as 47 ships choked...
...weekend a year, Pebble Beach duffers leave their clubs at home, get their kicks instead by watching the world's top pros make fools of themselves in the $100,000 Bing Crosby championship. Most of the spectators cluster around the 17th and 18th holes, where for 752 yds. there is nothing on the left but surf, sand, rocks and Hawaii-a 2,410-mile wood shot away. The smart ones bring gunny sacks and hang out in a cove, where balls hit into the sea are washed up by the tide...