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...Deck the Stalls...
Around midnight, Wood left the two men in the boat's main cabin and went to her stateroom. Some time later, dressed in socks, nightgown and a down jacket, she stepped out on deck. The air was cool (mid-50s) and stunningly clear after the day's rainstorms. She untied the rubber dinghy from the stern and then, according to Noguchi, fell from the Splendour into the 63° F water, bruising her left cheek as she tumbled overboard...
...shelter to deities during the season of frost and cold. The plant was regarded as a symbol of future hope and peace, and whenever enemies met beneath it they would drop their weapons and embrace. Kissing under the mistletoe probably grew out of this practice. Originally used to deck churches, mistletoe was abandoned in favor of holly and ivy because as one chronicier reports, it was "found to set young ladies and gentlemen a-reading the marriage service...
Only an hour after Gushin had left the sub, the harsh Baltic elements took an unexpected hand in the plot. Gale winds of up to 85 m.p.h. slammed towering combers against the sides of the sub, cascading tons of water on deck. The 50-man Soviet crew quickly decided it could stand no more. Red flares signaling distress whooshed up from the conning tower, and the radio put out the call "Mayday, Mayday." Under the sea's battering, the submarine developed a 17° list to starboard. The vessel's large electrical storage batteries threatened to leak acid...
...took the Swedes 15 hours after the grounding to get a navy picketboat to the scene, but then the pace quickened. Armed with submachine guns, Soviet crewmen paced the deck of the sub, a diesel-powered relic from the 1950s, which lay stranded like a great gray whale. Swedish Commander Karl Andersson boarded the intruder and talked to Captain Pyotr Gushin, whose increasingly melancholy air bore a remarkable resemblance to that of Actor Theodore Bikel, the beleaguered commander of the Soviet sub in The Russians, etc. Andersson emerged to say that the Soviets "blamed their accident on an error...