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Phil South relaxes on the deck as twilight descends on the French Riviera. The 22-year-old technician from Chelmsford, England, and his girlfriend, Gillian Fell, 26, are aboard easyCruiseOne, a no-frills, budget liner on its maiden voyage from Nice, the start of a tour of the French and Italian coasts that stretches between St. Tropez and Portofino. "There's no way we could have gone on a cruise [before easyCruise]," says South. "This has opened barriers for people like us." Great; just as long as nobody expects luxury at low prices. Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white...
...same weekend, the USS John F. Kennedy will be making a stop in Boston and welcoming visitors aboard...
...Navy and pharmacist's mate whose emergency appendectomy on a shipmate--the first ever on a submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze-covered tea strainer as an ether mask, he removed...
...Soviet Merchant Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently drifted off to an unhappy ending...
...officer of the ship talked to him at the gangplank. Then Medvid suddenly jumped into the water once again and swam back to shore. There he was caught by the pursuing Soviet officer and handcuffed while struggling violently. He even began beating his head against rocks. He was carried aboard the Konev, still kicking and screaming. On the ship, he slashed his left wrist in a possible suicide attempt...