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Bland and Boring. Since 1960 Veronica, an old German lightship owned by the Worldwide Trading Co. of Liechtenstein, has beamed advertisements, contemporary pop music and news to Dutchmen bored with the conservative blandness of The Netherlands' three state-subsidized radio stations. Veronica became so popular that the Dutch government refused to ratify the 1965 Strasbourg convention for fear of losing votes. That agreement bars pirate stations from the territorial waters of the European nations that have signed it, and makes it illegal to supply programs or ads to such radio ships...
...Freudenberg, skipper of the pride of the Israeli passenger fleet, the seven-month-old, $20 million Shalom, and by Captain Kristian Bendiksen, 54, of the 12,723-ton Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali. The two ships collided early Thanksgiving morning in heavy fog 17 miles northeast of Barnegat Lightship, off the New Jersey coast...
...footed fast, she simply could not be caught-even by accident. Just one-quarter mile from the finish line, Gretel's light blue Genoa jib tore loose from its main clew and flopped overboard. But the damage was quickly repaired and Gretel swept triumphantly past Brenton Reef lightship, with Vim trailing in her wake...
...owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...
When he sailed exhaustedly past Ambrose Lightship last week an easy winner (nobody else was within 530 miles), Chichester was checked by a psychiatrist, who reported "nothing much in the way of abnormalities." Chichester's only complaints were that he was four days out of beer, three days out of whisky, and his velvet smoking jacket was mildewed. Told that he had broken the British-U.S. Atlantic solo crossing record by 16 days, weary Mapmaker Chichester bussed his wife (who had come over by liner) and embraced a glass of champagne. "Normally," he mused, "you would...