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...captains had quit their jobs on the Lee Hong because of O'Brien during his enforced cruise on the ferry. Last March, after the unwelcome passenger threatened to "break every bone in your lime-juicing body," a third tossed him into the ship's brig, where O'Brien continued to do a profitable smuggling trade through a porthole. But none of O'Brien's peccadilloes could discourage the kindly agents of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees or the National Catholic Welfare Council from busily working for his release. "He's had his punishment...
...merchantmen sighted the bedraggled schooner, and came alongside to help, but were driven off by musket fire. Twice the Africans went foraging ashore, while the isolated yeomen of Long Island barricaded themselves behind locked doors. In the end, the Amistad was captured off Montauk Point by the Navy surveying brig Washington...
Scientists at the School of Public Health will soon attack the problems of old age, Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons (ret.), Dean of the School, announced...
Davis arrived at the Harvard School of Public Health two months late. He should have been fined $10 for late registration, but wasn't. Instead the tardy student was greeted dockside by the dean of the Public Health School, Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, and later was elected president of his class following a bibulous beer party for him in the School's staid lobby...
Last week, in a Seineside workshop near Paris, salvage engineers were once again assembling equipment for a try at the Télémaque treasure. Anything they find must be split 50-50 with the government. They hope the brig will yield 25 billion francs. Wasn't that estimate a little high? the engineer in charge was asked. He shrugged his shoulders and stared riverward with a look peculiar to dedicated treasure hunters. "If we find just 200,000 gold francs, we break even," he said. "All the rest will be clear profit...