When the U.S.S. John S. McCain slipped into Southeast Asian waters last fall, she began a cruise that any peacetime sailor might envy. The Seventh Fleet destroyer leader called at Cebu, Singapore, Rangoon, Calcutta, Hong Kong and Okinawa. In Rangoon 15,000 Burmese streamed aboard her. In Calcutta she hus tled food and medicine to a city ravaged by flood and cholera. Off Formosa, she plucked 41 seamen from a sinking Japanese freighter. But last week, back at Pearl Harbor, came the biggest thrill of all: the arrival of a penniless Okinawan, bound for the University of Hawaii with a full scholarship...
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