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Clenched Fists. As the crowd came up, half a dozen sailors watched glumly from the Pozharsky's deck. Two of them planted themselves in warning at the head of the gangplank. Most of the women stopped singing, but Palmira, undiscouraged, waved her carnations and shouted, "Tovarish, Tovarish, Tovarish Stalin." The Russians continued to stare blankly and, for a moment, her voice began to break. Then she beamed and raised her arm in the clenched fist salute. At last the Russians answered. They raised their right arms-with hands held open. "No, no," howled Palmira's followers...
...Russian captain was the first to understand and close his fist in the Communist salute. The other Russians quickly followed his example. Then a man in blue overalls came down the gangplank, walked up to Palmira and took her flowers. But when she asked with gestures if the women could board the Pozharsky, he waved a negative hand and hurried back to the ship. He carried Palmira's carnations head down. After a while the women quietly left the dockyards...
That same day, in Hong Kong, 83 Shanghailanders (including four U.S. citizens) walked down the gangplank of a Danish freighter and onto British soil. The travelers had gone by rail from Shanghai 700 miles north to Tientsin and thence 900 miles south to Hong Kong by ship. Their report on Communist Shanghai described a slowly dying city...
...Hoboken, N.J. one day last month, honey-haired Ruth Comfort, a University of Toronto student, was all set to walk down the gangplank of the Volendam and take the train home. Then a U.S. immigration officer began to question...
Screaming "Fire! fire!", Newman ran toward the gangplank with his wife and others from the lounge. From the pier, they looked back. Within minutes, the 36-year-old ship, encrusted with innumerable coats of paint that burned almost Rke magnesium, was lighting the sky with flames...