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CLINTON S. COOK Hamilton, Bermuda...
This time Bachelor Boston, 35, onetime Boston University football star and Navy demolitions expert, whistled up a wind that nestled firmly in the shoulder of his sail. The sea was a glassy, green highway. Twelve pleasant days later, Boston was stretching his legs in Bermuda...
Then Boston's luck abruptly vanished. "On the first night out of Bermuda it got rough. Two days later it got really rough. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. My engine quit, but I was so sick I couldn't fix it. The loss of food and rest were doing things to me. The jaundice I had at Port Said returned. I got a touch of the malaria that had bothered me during the war. I got delirious-semiconscious, you could even...
Buffeted by the ocean's roll, the dog Boston had picked up in Bermuda soon became a mass of welts and bruises. "I found it difficult to shoot Mudie," said Boston, "but it was the most humane thing to do. He sort of yelped and turned over." Alone again, Boston longed for any sort of companionship, wrote in his log: "Noticed a very small fish swimming near the rudder. I hope that he stays there. It will be nicer to have company...
...China should be subject to heavier restrictions than trade with Russia. Only Turkey, of all the 15 nations comprising CHIN-COM (the voluntary committee founded during the Korean war to coordinate a selective embargo on Red China) supported the U.S. insistence that the "China differential" should be maintained. At Bermuda two months ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had warned Eisenhower that if the U.S. did not agree to major easements, the British government would be forced to "go it alone...