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Four times since then, salvage experts have tried to bring up the Télémaque. In 1939 a diver, wallowing through the mud at the Seine's bottom, reached blindly into a barrel in the sunken hulk and came up with a fistful of gold louis. His employers decided to bring up the brig whole. They slung cables under the wreck and hauled away, but when the slimy mess at last came to the surface, it consisted of only the forward part of the brig. The after part, presumably containing the treasure, still lurked on the bottom...
...sliced their way through British flesh to mastery of the H.M.S. Renown. The dawn lit a scarlet scene: human rubble on the decks, the scuppers running with gore, the Spaniards in command. Brave Lieut. Bush, bleeding from nine wounds, lay hidden after the melee behind a cannon's hulk. "What would England say?" he asked himself bitterly. "What would the navy say?" Ah God, if only Hornblower had been there...
Over the weekend, two batteries of big guns--the American Council on Education and the Ivy League presidents--poured salvo after salvo into the battered and rotted hulk of once-proud college athletics. When the thunder had died away, a couple of crewmen of the punished vessel, Petty Officers Caldwell and Jordan, fired one final round against the foes of spring practice, and then struck their ensign...
Squash-shaped Mike Di Salle waddled into a room filled with newsmen in Washington one day last week, and plopped his hulk into a chair. "Well, I'm gonna do it," he said. The Administration's anti-inflation boss had decided to go after the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio. When a reporter asked what the issues will be, Di Salle was ready with one of his cracks: "I suppose the biggest one will be who will get the most votes...
...puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon steaming up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation had come to know as the silhouette of greatness. Prime Minister Winston Churchill scowled as he emerged from the Queen Mary, took a firm grip on the rope handrail and eased himself across a gangplank to the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Navesink in New York Harbor. Once safely on board the cutter, he politely doffed his hat* to official U.S. meeters & greeters...