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...menace to the free passage of the 40 or more ships that go through each day. To guide the ships safely through, the man at the helm must be familiar with every foot of bottom and bank, know every temperament of the current. In some parts of the Suez channel, a pilot may even have to turn his ship to the right in order to make it go left because of the strange effect of current and bottom on the vessel's own hull curvature. In addition, the Suez pilot must be familiar with the workings of virtually every...
...their proud island was once a mere peninsula of the European continent-a condition that, as geologists figure it, ceased only a short time ago. Dr. Harold Godwin of Cambridge has now estimated within a few centuries the date when the friendly sea broke through to form the English Channel and give Britain its freedom. It was 5000 B.C., says Dr. Godwin...
Emerging from the Atlantic surf on the New Jersey coast, power-packed Gertrude Ederle, 49, looked as if she could still swim the English Channel, a 35-mile trick that she was the first woman to perform. This week Gertrude was slated to get cheers and a commemorative plaque in the 30th anniversary month of her great triumph over winds, tides and waves...
...refitting job finished, the Carlins beat their way from London to the English Channel and drove across to Calais. They motored over the Simplon Pass into Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...
...bombers flying off to the eastern Mediterranean, and at week's end thou sands of reserves, hastily called from their summer pursuits, boarded troop transports bound from Britain for Cyprus. A British committee even banned Egyptian swimmers (including last year's winner) from the annual Channel race...