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...began, "I've got a good lead for today." When he had finished "filing" the story, he sometimes put in another imaginary call-to his 25-year-old daughter in London. He found the perfect use for China's stiff brown toilet paper: he made himself a deck of cards out of it and played solitaire...
...SEEBEE of Lykes Corp. will carry only 38 barges, but they will be twice as large as the LASH barges. An elevator will descend from the SEEBEE's stern to a point below sea level, then lift two barges at a time to one of three deck levels, where they will be stored horizontally. General Dynamics is scheduled to deliver three SEEBEES to Lykes in late 1971 at a total cost (including 266 special barges) of $111 million. The third barge ship, the Stradler, designed by New York Engineer Frank Broes, will be a catamaran that will cradle...
...Christina. The voyage had barely begun when the Mediterranean weather turned bad; Mrs. Kennedy retired to her cabin and stayed there. Several times in the next few days, a solicitous Onassis looked in on her, but always found her asleep. Finally, on the fourth day out, she emerged on deck, still looking a bit queasy. "I hope you're feeling better," said Onassis; then he mentioned that he had checked on her a couple of times. The Kennedy eyebrows arched. "You mean you actually came into my stateroom?" He nodded. This time Mrs. Kennedy retired to her cabin with...
There are no clues to what became of Crowhurst. It may have been suicide, an imprudent swim in shark-filled waters, or simply a misstep on a slippery deck. A number of friends in Teign-mouth, the town that helped sponsor his trip, hold out hope that he is still alive...
Author Shetzline, a onetime Forest Service lookout himself, has the gift of using sometimes lyrical, sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...