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...refugees often face brutal treatment at the hands of border guards. But not always. Take the skipper of a Rumanian patrol boat who recently intercepted a family of five that was trying to row across the Black Sea to Turkey. The skipper ordered the runaway family into the cutter, ordered his seamen into the rowboat, and the six roared off together toward the Turkish horizon-and freedom...
...dark sea off Viet Nam one night last week, British Freelance Photographer Tim Page was along for the ride as the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Point Welcome routinely searched for enemy gunrunners. Suddenly, two U.S. Phantom jets flashed out of the sky, inexplicably assuming that the cutter was an enemy trawler. Page drowsily stumbled on deck and was immediately riddled with shrapnel. At 22, Page had become the first allied correspondent to be wounded three times in the Viet Nam war-and survive...
...Including the 58-ft. cutter Palawan, owned by his boss, IBM Board Chairman Thomas J. Watson...
Volpe's handling of the Sales Tax issue is cited to illustrate that Republicans can be as determined and aggressive as Democrats while conducting themselves in a more statesman-like manner. And Richardson's transformation of the lieutenant governor's office from the residence of the Commonwealth's ribbon-cutter to the policy-making center for many of the state's health, education and welfare programs is offered as a sign of Republican imagination...
...club was established in 1950 by a onetime Belgian diamond cutter, Gérard Blitz, 54, who got into the business by way of running hotels to rehabilitate concentration-camp victims after the war. Blitz now owns 40% of the club's shares, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's Compagnie Financière 34%. In his original prospectus Blitz said the villages would permit members to escape from offices and factories and "rediscover the natural rhythm of life." Club President Gilbert Trigano, 45, takes a less lofty view. Says he: "We look on vacations as a product...