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...Voyager officer was walking along a corridor when the Melbourne's bow knifed through a few yards behind him, and he was swept out through the hole left by the collision. Another officer was drinking coffee in the wardroom when he was suddenly engulfed by water. "I swam to the surface," he recalled, "and found I was still in the wardroom. I got out through a slit in the side and found myself in the ocean, with its surface covered by a six-inch layer of fuel oil." Ten men trapped in the forward section finally forced open...
Stopping over in Paris, the royal party learned that the government would resign if they went on to Spain. The plane flew home instead. Juliana's unceremonious return led many Dutchmen to believe that the Queen would bow before the wave of hostility against the royal family and abdicate the throne. But Juliana could scarcely step down...
Johnson did break some ground of his own. In a bow to the affluent society, he recommended that FHA operations be extended to insure mortgages on vacation homes. He asked for 25,000 additional public-housing units each year, to be added not through new construction but more quickly by Government purchase or lease of existing unoccupied structures. In his freshest innovation, the President offered a three-part program to combat the "space-consuming, unplanned and uneconomic" sprawl of suburbia. Johnson would 1) grant direct loans to help communities set aside land for future public facilities, 2) insure subdivision builder...
...highlight the play's themes. Some of these capture and frame a perfect moment of deception. For example, Mrs. Dudgeon is more concerned about the disposition of her property than the death of her husband; then she enters the room in slow-paced mourning and all relatives rise and bow their heads in sympathy...
...This, followed by the Bay of Pigs, has established an enemy armed camp in our midst. If we give up control of the Panama Canal, we will lose prestige, endanger our country, and alienate all of our friends to the south of us. Let's not have to bow our heads in shame because of another "Bay of Pigs." Russia, the greatest hater in the world, is on the march. The Panama Canal is in its line of march...