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...month, U.S. jets have been sinking sampans, junks and other vessels at record rates-1,000 in the past month alone. But the biggest prize last week fell to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been patrolling South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition-off Ca Mau Peninsula. When the freighter refused to heave to, Point Grey opened up with 81-mm. mortars, ran the suspect aground...
...being underwritten by 200 firms, including Lapin's Pancake Houses, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Carvel ice cream, Mister Donut of America, Inc., Western Auto, Midas Mufflers and Chicago's A to Z Rental, which rents everything for the home from axes to zaxes (a special cutter for roofing tiles...
...acre vacation resort for members in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains; the I.L.G.W.U. has even lent the Rockefellers funds for a housing project in Puerto Rico. Dubinsky's hand-picked successor is the union's secretary-treasurer: quietly efficient Louis Stulberg, 64, a Polish-born ex-cutter, whose main job has been overseeing the union's business empire...
...There is no implication that, to promote these purposes [of the trust], the library and herbarium could not be maintained in Cambridge," the Court concluded. Justice: Whittemore was joined in the majority opinion by Associate Justices John V. Spalding '20 and R. Aml Cutter...
...boatmen, prodding them on their way. "I told them my boat just couldn't make it," reported one exile, "but they said, 'You have the green light-go.' " Out on the open sea, the exile's cabin cruiser began taking water; a U.S. Coast Guard cutter hovering near by had to rescue everyone aboard. In all, the Coast Guard picked up more than 100 Cubans from a dozen boats swamped by the rough seas. "You just wonder how many went down unnoticed," said an exile, who lost his own boat 50 miles south of Key West...