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...coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition-off Ca Mau Peninsula. When the freighter refused to heave to, Point Grey opened up with 81-mm. mortars, ran the suspect aground...
...probably the only living witness to what happened when Nimitz ran the destroyer Decatur aground in 1908. The ship was conducting torpedo practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When...
...deep through the streets. Army and National Guard amphibious craft cruised about picking up trapped householders from roofs and attics. One man paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...
...handled the beach detail and the dogs swam out to bite the swimmers treading water offshore. About the only bardolators getting any compassion were the prurient yachtsmen, who pulled abreast of Bardot's bastion and got so engrossed in the view from the bridge that they drifted hard aground on the reef in front of the house. Every few days, Brigitte would wearily telephone Saint-Tropez Rescue Captain Jean Des-pas: "Another boat is on the rocks. Would you please come pull it off?" Boston's salty Richard Cardinal Gushing, 69, rumbled back to the auld...
...Failures. Textron has not changed course without running aground on a few shoals. It has had six failures among its acquired companies, blames them on its overeagerness to use up a $42 million tax-loss carry-over from its old textile operations. The worst failure was that of the S.S. Leilani, a converted troop transport that Textron bought in 1956. Before Textron finally scuttled her, she lost $6,000,000 cruising to Hawaii. Sailor Thompson and Textron President G. William Miller, 40, both keep a model of the Leilani in their desks. Whenever any Textron executive suggests acquisitions that sound...