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Parkman's own labors seemed as heroic as the scope of his subject. He learned to shoot, ride a horse and maneuver a canoe, essential skills for the thousands of miles of travel that lay ahead. Mountains of old documents rose to test his fortitude. He fell victim to a variety of physical and nervous disorders. In the preface to an early volume, he mentions a vision problem that "has never permitted reading or writing continuously for much more than five minutes, and often has not permitted them at all." Somehow, he soldiered...
...race relations was disturbed last May when students picketed the Freshman Dean's Office, protesting the decision to with draw University support for minority and women's activities during Freshman Week But while the immediate issue sparking the outburst was the events it soon became clear that broader issues lay under the surface. The demonstrations led to more general complaints about University policy such as the veto of the Third World Center, and insufficient minority professors and administrators which add up to a feeling on the part of some minority students that Harvard simply does not care about them...
...song "Hexbreaker", the Fleshtones lay down a groove and play it to the hilt with call-and-response vocals, wild sex and harmonica by Spaeth, maniacal bass playing by the gangly Marek Pakulski, and a lot of cheerleading by Zaremba: "We always stay cool. We like it that...
Several Maracaibo crew members who boarded the 2,383-ton, Cyprus-registered Cloud concluded that it had been abandoned in haste, as if the difference between life and death lay in a few seconds. Shoes, apparently thrown off as the crew jumped into lifeboats, littered the deck. In the mess, food that had been left during an evening meal lay rotting on the tables. The ship's radio was still tuned to the emergency band. Moving deeper into the engine room, the explorers from the Maracaibo got their first clue as to why the Cloud had been abandoned...
...mystery lay above the engine room in the Cloud's cargo hold, where 5,000 wooden boxes labeled TNT were stored. Each box contained two 122-mm shells, a caliber used exclusively in Soviet-manufactured field guns and howitzers. The Venezuelans determined that the crew had probably thought it could not control the fire, and that the ammunition was about to blow the ship to pieces. Said Captain León: "They were on a floating bomb...