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...flotilla crossed the midstream boundary line into Canada, Victoria householders turned on their porch lights as beacons. By 110'clock Thomas was safely past Race Rocks, usually a tidal trap but now beneficently calm. At 1 o'clock he shouted: "It sure is cold." A few minutes later: "How'm I doin'? I want the truth now." Replied a voice from the King Bacardi: "You've caught 1½ miles in the last 20 minutes." A little later Thomas called out: "You fellas got nothing to worry about. Sit back and relax...
...Lucero-made a start toward conciliating the Catholics by 1 ) ordering the release of all jailed priests, 2) making a special exception to the ban on public gatherings so that Catholics could hold church services mourning the persons killed during the revolt. This week a flotilla of rebel naval vessels was reported still holding out off Buenos Aires, apparently trying to negotiate with Perón and the army. Elsewhere, Lucero seemed to have everything under control-perhaps even...
Cold Cold War. The Argentine flotilla set out from Buenos Aires in mid-December to carry supplies and men to Argentina's eight permanent antarctic outposts, and to bring back the men whose one-year tours of polar duty were done. On the shore of a bay at 78° south, 39° west, the expedition built a ninth year-round outpost-a weather station-and left 20 men to staff it. Buenos Aires claimed that it was the southernmost permanent base in the antarctic...
Until last fall the club was able to sail at M.I.T. four and sometimes five times each week. An increase in the number of schools which now depend on sharing the use of the Engineers' 52 dinghies has forced M.I.T. to ration out its flotilla more carefully...
...Yoke Yoke), that went into the sea near Naples on April 8, left no remains that could be analyzed, but when Comet G-ALYP (Yoke Peter) crashed on Jan. 10 off Elba, its fragments fell into fairly shallow water. Armed with underwater television cameras and special "grab" equipment, a flotilla of British naval salvage vessels and Italian trawlers scoured the bottom, about 500 ft. deep, and fished up the twisted fragments. In all, they got 70% of the structure and 80% of the power plant...