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When the sailing ships Porpoise and Cato foundered off eastern Australia one night in August 1803, Explorer Matthew Flinders led the 94 survivors to safety on a nearby sandspit, then sailed and rowed a small cutter 729 miles to Sydney for help. While Flinders is an Australian national hero-the first man to circumnavigate the continent-the theory persisted that his navigating was off when he recorded the wreckage at latitude 22° 11' south, longitude 155° 13' east. But that spot is precisely where an Australian underwater photographer named Ben Cropp last week, 162 years later...
...scalp, she shut her eyes and sank slowly to the ground. My God, thought Nagle, I've killed her. "Don't let it get you," said Player. "It happens to all of us." Play on, ordered an official. Nagle swallowed hard, swung-and belted a grass cutter that caromed off another woman's ankle. Final score: Player 71, Nagle...
Warmer Water. The Atlantic being a smaller ocean than the Pacific, its waves are generally smaller and less consistent. Last month, when 4,000 spectators gathered in Narragansett for the New England championships, the sea was so still a Coast Guard cutter had to ply back and forth to make it a contest. But Eastern addicts are still getting their surf legs and seem quite content with the three-and four-footers found along most of the coast. A few weekends ago, when the rollers at Narragansett rose to California size (six feet), not a surfer braved the waves. Explained...
...poor Italian immigrants, De Angelis was forced to quit high school to support his parents. Starting out as a meat cutter in The Bronx, he devised a method for speedily dismembering hogs by slicing them up on a moving assembly line. That helped him get a $10,000 loan to open his own pork-packing plant. While still in his 20s, he built it into the largest such operation in the Eastern U.S. and sold copious quantities of meat to the federal school-lunch program...
...another dissent, Justice R. Ammi Cutter '22 said that while "the book seems to me offensive and unpleasant in numerous respects," he would allow Fanny Hill to circulate except among person under...