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While arguing that the policy abridges expression, Hawser acknowledged that the matter is not necessarily a "First Amendment issue...
...working crew becomes clear as the boat enters the lock. With practiced ease, Deck Hand Basil Kuvshinikov, whose name and accent both attest to his origins in the Russian city of Smolensk, steps ashore and walks beside the slowly moving boat, a loop of its thick forward hawser over his shoulder. As he slips the loop over one of the mushroom-shaped bollards onshore, another deck hand, a stocky, bearded man named Tim Burke, tightens the line, snubbing the Peckinpaugh to the side of the lock...
Column and Hawser. The present retrospective in Paris, of Miró's work, organized by the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs at the Grand Palais (through Oct. 13), is for all practical purposes definitive. It contains some 350 works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative...
...before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship. The Mont Blanc drifted across the harbor, nuzzled against a pier and set fire to it. People with minutes to live watched from harborside and rooftops. The crew of a tug mounted the Mont Blanc's decks to secure a hawser. The ship was so hot that the waters lapping it sizzled. Then it exploded...
...Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five times it ran itself aground at Provincetown, virtually on Dr. White's Boston doorstep (though he was in Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive spout. Fifth time, an observer phoned the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 60 miles away. There Dr. John W. Kanwisher put in a hurried call to Dr. White, then drove...