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...Coraggio was the type of ship which confronts a pilot with the toughest problems and dangers of all. She was built to carry the biggest load that could squeeze through the ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close...
...Democratic Convention at Chicago, Davis' name was put in nomination on the first ballot by last-ditch segregationists, some of whom never switched to Stevenson...
G.B.S. never lay in a ditch all night, boozed up to the eyebrows. He never broke a promise, never let a friend down, stubbornly refused to die in poverty. And he was faithful to his wife-even when Mrs. Patrick Campbell toppled him to the floor, and herself on top of him, in an effort to change his mind...
...maritime jobs are more exacting or, under the right conditions, more rewarding, than that of a Suez pilot. The shifting, sandy banks and uncertain currents of the narrow (500 ft. at water level), man-made ditch are a constant menace to the free passage of the 40 or more ships that go through each day. To guide the ships safely through, the man at the helm must be familiar with every foot of bottom and bank, know every temperament of the current. In some parts of the Suez channel, a pilot may even have to turn his ship...
Bill Martin not only made a tidy fortune (which is now invested in real estate and Series E Government bonds); he soon made a name for himself as a leading spokesman for the Young Turks who were urging sweeping reforms on the old, bold exchange in a last-ditch fight to stave off SEC regulation. The insurgents triumphed, transforming the exchange from a private club run for the benefit of its members into the public utility that serves as the major source of U.S. venture capital. After Old Guard President Richard Whitney was convicted of embezzling exchange members...