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...early June afternoon the east ern Mediterranean sky was clear, the sea calm. The U.S. Navy communications ship Liberty, a converted Victory freighter, was steaming west-northwesterly at five knots, about 14 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Seconds later, lookouts sighted jet fighters bearing in from the southeast at 7,000 ft. A rocket slammed into Liberty's port side amidships, igniting two 55-gal. gasoline drums; a bomb struck the starboard side. The planes, sweeping down in teams of two or more, raked the ship with crisscross rocket and machine-gun fire, riddling hull and superstructure with...
Continental Breakfast. Escorted by tough riot police of Beirut's red-bereted "Squad 16," the Americans boarded Pan American and Middle East Airlines charter jets, soon were winging for Rome, Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Ankara, and Nicosia on Cyprus. Others made it aboard the American Export Isbrandtsen freighter Exilona for a leisurely, sun-drenched cruise to the Cypriot port of Famagusta...
...spring morning in 1948, the U.S. freighter John H. Quick eased into the harbor of Bordeaux, her holds heavy with 9,000 tons of wheat. The scars of war still showed in the prostrate Europe that lay beyond the Quick's bows...
...been added to her bottom to make her stiffer in the water, her stern has been shortened 2 ft. 5 in., her deck has been replaced, and her mast has been stepped aft about 1 ft. so that she can fly a bigger genoa. Now en route by freighter to New York, Columbia will not get into action until July, but Designer Stephens has assured Dougan that her new shape and fittings will make her "competitive...
...hatred of the press. Lindbergh plainly felt that the merciless mob of newspapermen descending on his Hopewell, N.J., farmhouse had scared the kidnapers out of their wits and perhaps panicked them into killing his son. After the long ordeal of the trial, he secretly loaded his family on a freighter and fled to England, where they settled on the estate of Author-Critic Harold Nicolson...