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...worry about what the United Nations ought to do about it. On the other hand, he can play to the full the sedentary man's favorite game of being a judge of human affairs-with an incomparable host of kings, knights, bishops and princesses filing into the dock under his just but piercing scrutiny. He can also pick up some fascinating history without having to plow through Gibbon...
ROBERT NEVILLE, onetime FOREIGN NEWS writer, will dock this week in Hong Kong. As bureau chief there, he will cover the precarious little British jumpseat walled in by ambitious Reds...
...Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s yards at Sparrows Point, Md. and Quincy, Mass.; and Sun Oil Co.'s Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester...
...dock a Sūreté officer pointed to a large crate, ordered dockers to break it open. Inside the crate was an old grey Ford automobile. Inside the Ford, smiling and blinking away tears caused by the sunlight, sat an emaciated man with a long beard...
...Palizzi's sailors told what they knew. The crate had been nailed up in Sofia 40 days earlier. It had been taken by train to Burgas, where it had lain on the dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later...