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Shortly after noon last Wednesday, the radio in the Miami office of the Bahamas Line shipping company crackled with an emergency message. It came from the captain of the Johnny Express, a slow (12-knot), 1.500-ton freighter returning to Miami after delivering general cargo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Captain José Villa, a Cuban exile who is now a U.S. citizen, reported that as his ship was passing between the West Caicos Islands and the Inaguas in the Bahamas, a Cuban patrol boat demanded that he submit to a search. When he refused to stop, the Cubans opened...
...Fichter upset MIT's strongest fencer, Mike Asherman, 5-4 in the last foil bout to enable Harvard to turn back a surprising MIT squad, 14-13, last night at MIT's DuPont Athletic Center. The Engineers had come back from an imposing 12-6 second round deficit to knot the score, and set up the dramatic final bout...
...pulling the string last week, the British tightened a knot around the Soviet community. They declared that the Soviet Union will not be allowed to replace any of the officials who are being expelled-or any similarly expelled in the future. That will reduce the size of the Soviet official community to 445, and even fewer if additional cases of espionage are discovered...
...high (anywhere from $350 to $1,000), grounds for divorce are limited, and court procedures ponderous. Some judges have been accused of deliberately stalling cases, and some parish priests have been taking unconscionably long in furnishing documents to would-be divorcees, making it impossible for them to untie the knot. Aside from a few celebrities such as Vittorio De Sica, Maria Callas and Catherine Spaak, those who do go through the struggle in the courts are usually middle-class people anxious to legalize long-term liaisons and second families. "Divorce is neither easy nor a bourgeois luxury," says a lawyer...
...bottom of the sixth, Pete Bernhard led off the inning with a screaming liner that carried to the wall for two bases. After Hal Smith and Mike Thomas failed to move him along. Art Serrano sliced a single through the right side of the infield to score Bernhard and knot the score...