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...already unhappy relations be tween the U.S. and Peru took another turn for the worse last week. The latest trouble was caused by the seizure of an American fishing boat. The boat - the fourth U.S. tuna clipper taken captive this year - was fined for having violated the 200-mile limit claimed for Peru's territorial waters (the U.S. recognizes only a 12-mile limit for fishing rights). In some exasperation, Administration officials in Washington leaked the news that the U.S. was suspending arms sales to Peru...
...Splendid Splinter? The Big Train? The Big Six? Pistol Pete? The Wild Horse of the Osage? The Yankee Clipper...
...Kate's mother Mrs. Hardcastle, the inevitable Sheila Hart must be applauded for the style she brings to the production. Her second act entrance with an enormous Marie Antoinette headpiece, complete with decorative clipper ship, is a first rate metaphor of spectacle as the Hum 7 people would say. Her arch delivery makes for a kind of cutting humor that saves this trifle from being just a confectioner's tableaux...
Fans cheered, ushers and grounds keepers waved hello, and rookies nudged one another. There, wearing the familiar No. 5 and a lopsided grin stood a nostalgic figure- the matchless Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, 53, back on the field in Yankee Stadium after 17 years of retirement. Instead of sporting those familiar Yankee pin stripes, though, Joe trotted onto the diamond in the canary-and-green uniform he wears for his new job as vice president and batting coach of the rival Oakland Athletics. "It's not the same " said DiMag, taking a look around the recently renovated stadium. True...
...American, whose Clipper flying boats pioneered transpacific air services in the 1930s, would lose its long monopoly on U.S.-flag service to the South Pacific islands. But it would receive new lift elsewhere, including New York-to-Tokyo Great Circle flights in competition with Northwest and new services to Hawaii and the Orient from three West Coast cities. It would also get permanent permission for its recently inaugurated flights from New York to Hawaii and the Orient. Passenger stopover privileges on these flights, now limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles, could be expanded to other West Coast cities...