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Died. Richard Tregaskis, 56, a war correspondent who hit the Solomon Islands beach with the first boatload of Marines in 1942 and recorded his experiences in a World War II classic, Guadalcanal Diary; apparently of drowning; in Honolulu. Although his 6-ft. 7-in. frame provided an easy target for enemy guns, Tregaskis was wounded seriously only once while covering a total of nine wars. A novelist and screenwriter as well, Tregaskis wrote his last war book, Vietnam Diary...
...sill lingered when, earlier this year, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced that the U.S. would no longer choose its crew team by the boatload. Olympic coach Harry Parker, who had carved out a well known niche for himself in U.S. rowing circles with his coaching exploits at Harvard, threw out the old method of selecting infact the best U.S. eight for the Olympics. Instead Parker brought in the individual selection process, the system that had made East Germany and New Zealand centers of power in the rowing world. Parker and the U.S. Olympic Committee, discouraged by the steady downhill slide...
...Hughes-Hoax Author Clifford Irving can blame him for making the island a household name; it has become so crowded that some travelers sleep in cars or on the roadsides. On the Greek island of Ios, police no longer allow the young knapsack-setters who arrive by the boatload every summer to camp on the beaches. Reason: there were so many kids and so few sanitary facilities that officials feared an outbreak of disease...
...gradually phased out of the spook business and used instead for weather reports and sending navigation signals. The U.S. eventually decided that the islands could be safely given away. For Honduras, which has claimed them since 1923, Swan has long been a symbol of Yankee imperialism. In 1961 a boatload of students sailed out to plant the Honduran flag on Great Swan. Invited ashore, they flew their flag, stayed for sandwiches and beer, and then sailed home...
...make profits both coming and going. Their aim is not to sell their products at all, but to keep them moving around in a circle, changing labels at each border as subsidies and tariffs dictate. One Antwerp grain dealer set some kind of agro record by shipping the same boatload of wheat back and forth between Antwerp and Rotterdam for days. The cargo was never unloaded, but simply relabeled with the name of a different kind of grain at each port...