Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek new 12,800-ton Russian cruiser Sverdlov* appeared off the Isle of Wight last week, bound for the coronation naval review. A British pilot went aboard, but Captain Olimpey Rudakov had no need for him. Silent on the bridge, his chest diagonally festooned with medals, Captain Rudakov manipulated a series of levers behind him to convey his orders to the engine room and the helmsman. At the correct spot, the correct time, he dropped anchor. Simultaneously, with a flick of another switch, he set off a 21-gun salute...
...raise the needed funds, Chatô has turned the whole pressure of his 28 newspapers, five magazines, 19 radio stations and two TV transmitters on Brazil's other millionaires. Last week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...
...hardest worker of the three. He puts in long hours as boss of the Lincoln-Mercury division, has not had time for a round of golf in two years. But he finds time to cruise on Lake St. Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into an able speaker. "When we decided it was time for him to make a speech to the Washington dealers," Ernie Breech recalls, "he stammered and stumbled, and I think he would have fallen...
...Freshman Hammond, 20, had been suspended in February for flying his Piper Super Cruiser without school authorization to a Mount Holyoke College dance. (After a bit of careless navigation, he overshot the dance and crashed in a New Hampshire cornfield.) More misadventures with an unauthorized car, including a trip to Florida, led to his expulsion. Only a few days before the riot, he had buzzed the campus in his plane and sprinkled it with empty beer cans...
...Order of other finishers, on the basis of miles per gallon: Hudson Super Jet, 25.42; Nash Rambler Super. 25.37; Studebaker Commander, 24.50; Dodge V8, 23.41; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 23.39; Mercury Monterey, 23.15; Studebaker Land Cruiser (with automatic shift), 22.88; Plymouth Cranbrook, 22.83; Nash Ambassador, 22.54; Ford Mainline Eight, 22.51; Kaiser Manhattan, 22.27; Hudson Jet, 22.05; Kaiser Dragon, 21.45; Nash Ambassador Custom, 21.12; De Soto Firedome V8, 20.92; Lincoln Capri, 19.94; Nash Statesman, 19.44; Hudson Super Wasp, 19.09; Hudson Hornet, 18.95; Packard Clipper, 18.67; Chrysler New Yorker, 17.75; Chrysler Imperial...