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James Michener first visited Spain as a chart boy aboard a freighter that hauled oranges from the eastern coast to the marmalade factories of Dundee. In the 35 years since then, he has returned repeatedly, both as a knockabout traveler and a rich tourist. In his book he makes no effort to prettify the country's problems or ignore its faults. As long as Spain remains ruled by the army, the landed families and the church, he sees scant hope of any dramatic social or industrial progress-although he does grant that there have been genuine advances in recent...
...railroad accident the sophisticated techniques used to determine the causes of plane crashes-an obvious but hitherto unheard-of innovation -it has found the "probable cause" (a switchman's error) of a collision in New York City last year. After the foundering of a 60-year-old freighter on Lake Huron in 1966 (28 died), it ordered the Coast Guard to intensify inspection of older ships plying the Great Lakes. Even a proposal to widen the breadth of trucks by six inches (to 102 inches) has not escaped the board's eye; unless highways are correspondingly widened...
America's longshoremen have long staged their own reprisals against enemies foreign and domestic, as in their refusal in 1964 to load U.S. wheat onto Russian-bound freighters. Now Dr. Benjamin Specie, 64, baby doctor and Viet Nam dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...
...Force One. The first stop was Houston, where the President toured the Manned Spacecraft Center. Next, he dropped in at Beaumont, Texas, for a fund-raising dinner, then on to Marietta, Ga., to watch Lockheed Aircraft roll out the world's largest aircraft, the C-5A Galaxy flying freighter (wing span: 223 ft., height: 65 ft.), which can lift 21 times more cargo than any current U.S. air transport. "This would sure carry a lot of hay," marveled Johnson after touring the C-5A's barnlike cargo hold. Then he flew to Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto...
...Cuban exile organization in Miami. The U.S., of course, got no thanks from Havana. Raging against "this new imperialistic Yankee aggression," the Castro government charged that "Yankee warships" had "violated the principles of freedom of the seas" by carrying out a "warlike maneuver" against a helpless freighter...