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...sooner did the first sun come out than children came out too, in swarms. Scores of the deck promenaders and loungers in the deck chairs were the parents of British girls who had married American servicemen. They were going on a visit rather than a voyage. It was a family outing...
...warship plunged headlong into the 10,000-ton Yarmouth County, outbound at a cautious eight knots. Fifty feet of the Micmac's port bow was peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Jagged steel ripped through the arms and legs of seamen dozing on their mess deck. Crashing steel girders pinned others to the deck...
...regarded at CBS as a gallingly large number of news events that the network's crack news staff was unable to cover. Last week, CBS covered its embarrassment with a series called CBS Is There. This week, the network time-machined a broadcaster back to 1492 and the deck of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria. He reported...
Daly: "The gun! The gun! The signal . . . from the Pinta! [shouts of 'Tierra! Tierra!'] Land! Land! ... I see it, too. A white sand cliff gleaming! . . . Pandemonium has broken loose here on the deck of the Santa Maria. . . . I'm all choked up. ... I return you now to CBS in London...
...ship readied to sail, Messersmith and Perón stood bareheaded on the deck, the Ambassador visibly shivering in the raw winter wind, talking fast and repeatedly jabbing Perón on the chest with his index finger. Perón reassuringly patted the Ambassador. Then the President joined 12,000 Peronistas on the pier. "Perón! Messersmith! Perón! Messersmith!" chanted the crowd. For nearly an hour, as the Del Sud moved into the stream and out to sea, Perón stood on the quayside-still waving...