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...committed the sin of adultery with Mrs. Lynn Kauffman, and my wife has forgiven me of punishment," said Dutch Radio Operator Willem Van Rie, 31, accused of killing the Chicago divorcee and throwing her battered body into Boston harbor after a torrid, 44-day passage from Singapore aboard the freighter Utrecht (TIME, Oct. 12). "But I never kicked, or hit, or beat Mrs. Kauffman," said Van Rie, his voice shaky. "As God is my witness, I'm telling the truth...
Under a hot Caribbean sun at 3 p.m. one day last week, stevedores on Havana's eastern waterfront bent to a task of No. 1 priority in Fidel Castro's Cuba. In the holds of the 4,310-ton French freighter La Coubre, were 76 tons of Belgian artillery shells, grenades and small arms ammunition. Most of it never reached its destination. At that hour, a shuddering blast rocked the vessel, hurling exploding shells, steel deck plates and human fragments aloft in a pillar of fire...
...plants and faster and farther-ranging air service, it is now possible to buy TIME in foreign capitals even before it reaches newsstands in some U.S. towns. Remote areas are still troublesome. After an irate subscriber in Tahiti complained that he was receiving his TIME in batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed copies before the date of issue, and today number...
...Belgian freighter Vinotra broke in two and sank in heavy seas off Holland. Its master and his wife, the only persons on board, were missing...
...little coastal freighter barely made it to the lee of Caldy Island, in the Bristol Channel, one mile off the Welsh coast. Bound out from the Scottish port of Irvine on a 30-hour run to the Welsh port of Milford Haven, the 700-ton St. Angus had run into one of the winter's wildest storms, which raked and pounded Britain from the Hebrides to the Scilly Isles. Off tiny Caldy (pop. 59) the seven-man crew faced a grim Christmas. Their food was running low. and there was little hope of getting more...