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...Private Cervantes was aboard a warship in the Spanish and Venetian fleet that sailed into the Gulf of Lepanto and closed with the Ottoman fleet bent on the destruction of Christian power in the Mediterranean. A high fever pinned the gaunt, red-bearded young man to his bunk, but when he heard the battle raging, he threw himself into the fight anyhow...
...unexpected windfall in the good grey New York Times. They clipped out a series of dispatches on life in Russia by Times Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury and reproduced parts of them. Crowed the Worker: "The articles [were] a refreshing, vivid contrast to the daily diet of highly imaginative bunk which the Times and its journalistic cohorts generally feed their readers" and "completely undermined" the "official line" of the U.S. that it is arming only against aggression by Russia...
California. Undaunted by official skepticism, one Clifford Harrod McCaslin of Oakland went on building his egg-shaped bomb shelter ("Ever try to crush an egg?"). His egg, when completed, will house 33, provide bunk space for 20. "They laughed ... at City Hall when I applied for a permit," said McCaslin, "but it isn't really funny...
...coast." Officers who remembered the Solomons campaign spoke of the beat between southern Japan and Korea as "The Little Slot." Said a junior officer: "This is the only way to fight war for me, fat and happy, waiting for it to come to you. Good chow, showers and clean bunk." Rear Admiral John Higgins, whose flag is in the Juneau, smiled happily. This was what the Navy called esprit de corps. The Juneau headed back to her base in Japan to get more ammunition...
Brooks founders in melodramatic bunk and never reaches a dramatically satisfying solution...