Word: gangplanks
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While a U.S. Army band tootled Hearts of Stone, 787 Canadian infantrymen trudged down the gangplank of a U.S. Navy transport in Seattle harbor one day last week. They were officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, heading home after a year of exacting but unspectacular service along the Korean truce line...
...eyes popped in happy unison as the sleek green Cunard luxury liner Caronia tied up at a Kobe pier side. "A particularly wonderful group," clucked an official of the Japan Travel Bureau as a long line of Helen Hokinson ladies and balding gentlemen picked their way down the gangplank. "I should estimate that they came 95% to buy souvenirs and only 5% for sightseeing-a tedious business anyway...
...electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual, in a hut by a gangplank. But in the morning, workmen found that some 30 of the Urania's master electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands of pounds. One day last week, electric wiring was cut on the frigate Loch...
...spent most of his time boozing in "doggeries" (saloons) and pasting whisky ads in the family Bible. Fed up, Minnie left with the children, and on June 6, 1870, Joaquin sailed from Portland, Ore. for San Francisco and the life of letters. Blond locks aflow, Joaquin strode down the gangplank and announced: "Let us go and talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused to take Joaquin as seriously as he took himself. Undaunted, he printed up some calling cards, "Joaquin Miller: Byron of the Rockies...
...notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...