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Sir: The officers of U.S.S. Safeguard (ARS-25) noted with much interest your story, "The Skunk Watchers" [Oct. 14]. As Safeguard is a sister ship to the U.S.S. Conserver (ARS-39), we found to our amazement that our relative is a "rust-pitted, rickety tug" that apparently is doing well...
The ARS are not tugs, although they do have the secondary capability for long ocean tows. Their primary mission is rescue salvage. In this capacity, these vessels have roamed the coasts of Viet Nam pulling less fortunate vessels from the beach and salvaging numerous items from offshore waters.
As for being rust-pitted and rickety: when one considers the mission of an ARS, it becomes very clear that there are times when she is going to get scratched, banged and, in general, look quite shoddy. But it is at this time that she is probably doing her best...
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION. Ars graftia artis. Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in an elegant comedy about the joys of burgling and forging the old masters.
Thinly disguised for a time as a charwoman, Audrey plays the daughter of a fine old French family with a congenital weakness for forging old masters. Papa is Hugh Griffith, a shaggy rogue whose wickedly rolling orbs make him look like a cross between a pinball machine and a Rembrandt...