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...guns swiveling from side to side as if to sniff the air, then belching fire at the Citadel walls. Overhead, helicopters sprayed napalm across the ponds and courtyards of the Imperial Palace, and fighter-bombers blasted away at three main enemy positions. From below, out to sea, a U.S. cruiser kept shelling the Communists...
What was left of the navy became a hotbed of anti-czarist agitation. In 1917, the guns of the cruiser Aurora fired a blank salvo at the Winter Palace in Petrograd and started the October Revolution. At first, sailors were the new Soviet government's most trusted fighters, but Lenin managed to alienate them. He put in charge of the navy a commissar who was, of all things, a woman, named Larisa Reisner-Raskol-nikova, and refused to allow the sailors to organize their own self-ruling local governments. As a result, the Baltic Fleet suddenly mutinied in 1921. Lenin...
Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly. Proper yachtsmen snickered whenever one tied up at the dock, and out on the water skippers of fast-moving cruisers delighted in leaving the lumbering arks pitching and wallowing in their wake. Not any longer. There is a new kind of hot houseboat that comes with a deep V hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than...
...quadrupled production of its 33-ft. and 43-ft. houseboats in the past 18 months, is now making 2,000 houseboats a year. At the River Queen Boat Works in Gary, Ind., sales have increased 100% in the past two years. Now Chris-Craft, the nation's largest cruiser manufacturer, has just swallowed its pride after three years of intensive market research and gone into houseboats with a 33-footer that costs $9,500, sleeps six, does up to 40 m.p.h...
...lies within Cuba's territorial waters and is a menace to its fishing interests. Senator Fulbright demands we evacuate Miami to avoid possible friction with Castro's forces in Key West. The Archbishop of Cyprus, with the aid of two armed sailboats, impounds an American heavy cruiser. Senator Mansfield recommends that the ship be exchanged for the crew and that $100 million be given for the bishop's inconveniences. The government of Andorra arrests 100 tourists for not genuflecting while passing in front of a church. Senator Kennedy considers the charges just and demands that reparations...