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...gentle ocean, and an awesome wall of North Atlantic fog closed in around her. But the ship's mood as she neared the U.S. was fog-free and gay. A movie (Foxfire) was running in one of Andrea Doria's four theaters; in the plush, boat deck Belvedere lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight-piece orchestra. Their last song: Arrivederci, Roma. In the cardrooms, bridge foursomes pondered hands. On deck late strollers tasted the mist and sniffed for land smells. Below, passageways were lined with baggage already packed and prepared for customs. Some passengers...
...through an expensive "cure" to kick the narcotics habit when she was arrested and convicted in Philadelphia on a dope-possession charge, and sent to prison. Less than a year after her release, she was arrested again−and acquitted−in California. The way she tells it, the deck was stacked against her. "When I was on [dope], nobody gave me any trouble," she says. "I got into trouble when I tried to get off." She was arrested last winter again in Philadelphia, where the trial is still pending. And there her story ends...
...utterly miscast. For one thing, he is too young, giving no impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders, beard, and melancholy, almost soft, expression remind the viewer more of one of Ahab's prominent but quite contrasting contemporaries--Abe Lincoln...
...Navy and its planemakers, supersonic air war poses a tough question: how to build a jet hot enough to fight all comers yet cool enough to land on short carrier flight decks. Last week the Navy thought it had an answer. Off San Diego, a slim, stub-winged fighter swung in behind the carrier U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard and eased gracefully onto the canted flight deck. The plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could...
...stop at the shallow end of the pool, then grabbed the gutter with both hands. "John, have you got a cramp?" asked an assistant coach. "Can I help you?" John Glover slumped back into the water, his eyes closed. Some swimmers grabbed him and lifted him to the deck, face down. He groaned two or three times, but he did not respond to artificial respiration. A Pulmotor did not help. An ambulance rushed Glover to the hospital but he was dead when it got there...