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First word of the disaster came to the U.S. Coast Guard's Boston station radio, which heard the faint words "Pan . . . pan . . . pan . . .," an international signal meaning that an urgent message follows. It was from the Shalom, which had a 40-ft.-long gash in her bow and was shipping tons of sea water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes...
...huge government work force was threatening to strike unless salaries were increased 35%, and the government was expected to bow to the demands, grant its employees their fourth substantial raise in five years. - Disheartened economists were sadly contemplating a batch of disastrous financial figures. The value of the peso has crash dived from 90 to 50 in 20 months. The cost of living went up 45% last year, has climbed 30% more this year. The government's proposed $258 million budget for 1965 includes a planned deficit of $29 million; others say it will be more like $83 million...
...Wilson Howard was a natty little man with a predilection for splendid dress-fresh boutonnieres every day, violently checked pistachio shirts and bow ties of the same stuff. His taste for work was just as pronounced. "I'm not a candidate for the funeral director yet," he said in 1960, putting aside his last active title with the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and taking the relatively inactive post of chairman of the executive committee. But he continued to go down to the office every day just the same. There, one afternoon last week, in his 81st year, a heart...
Aided by a neighbor, Mark Patek '65, Gerhart chased the thief down Bow St. and caught him in front of the Lampoon. Miss Gillam meanwhile hailed a passing police car, and the youth was taken into custody. Gerhart modestly deprecated his heroism. "The fellow could hardly walk straight," he said...
Eleswhere in the league, Brown can bring its Ivy record to 3-4 by beating Columbia in Providence. Passing partners Jim Dunda and John Parry will be anxious to bow out with a flash in their last college football game...