Word: iii
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...raiders, but actively discourages them. Washington thinks that the raids do Castro no real harm, and in fact, encourage the Russians to keep their troops in Cuba. Last week, acting on information provided by the U.S., British authorities in the Bahamas seized a 35-ft. raider boat named Violynn III. The crew of 17 had been bound on a mission to land arms on the coast of Cuba; then they intended to seek out a Russian tanker and attack it with 20-mm. incendiary and explosive shells...
...raiders were held four days in a Nassau jail on charges of illegal possession of firearms. The British released them and returned their guns, but kept the ammunition. The owner of the Violynn III, Alexander Rorke Jr., later declared that the boat had been on eleven missions to Cuba since October. And on eight of them, said Rorke. the crew included U.S. college boys. Among the institutions represented at various times: Princeton, Harvard, Boston College, Miami and Indiana...
DuPont and Supino acted as counsel for the FCC. The were opposed by Katrina Renouf and Fred C. Scribner III, who served as advocates for a South Carolina radio station which was appealing the FCC's decision not to renew its license. The case was heard by the "United States Court of Appeals for the District of Ames Circuit," which included White, Judge Elpert P. Tuttle of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judge Sterry R. Waterman, of the Second Circuit Court...
Died. John Wesley Thompson Faulkner III. 61, younger brother of Author William, a novelist and painter in his own right who created in words and oil paintings a picture of the Deep South at once broadly humorous and fiercely tragic, most notably in his first two books...
Whether dealing with men like Pulteney, or discussing such better known figures as Charles Townsend or George III, Namier builds his historical writing on a welter of details and quotations. Yet Namier's prose does more than merely link together the treasures unearthed by his scholarship. It often takes on a sparkle completely its own--"Still George III clung... like a molusc (a molusc who never found his rock)." But Namier is an historical technician as well as a prose artist. The special merit of Namier's work is that the reader is placed as close to the evidence...