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Died. Piero Calamai, 75, captain of the Andrea Doria when, on July 25, 1956, the Italian liner collided with the Stockholm off the Nantucket coast and sank; in Genoa, Italy. Though a naval veteran of 39 years and both World Wars, Calamai retired to the hills of Liguria following the inquiry into the collision and never ventured to sea again...
...MORE serious political criticisms might he made of the PLP-LP. Those who wrote the songs say in the liner that they were attempting to create the beginnings of a "working class culture" which would embody socialist goals. But the same ideological certainty and simplicity which allowed PL to create this album undermines its broad cultural aims. In many of the songs, the lyrics present a simple world of workers fighting with a small, tightly allied group of..."bosses." The songs say that the bosses must be smashed, but one gets very little idea of what "smashing the bosses" actually...
...Washington, Dita claims she "got engaged to three men at the same time": a Far East expert in the Dutch embassy, an Army officer and an Italian naval attache. Since the Dutchman gave her the prettiest ring, she agreed to visit him in Honolulu, traveling on a Matson liner. "They were all interested in this long, lanky female traveling alone. We had a party that wouldn't stop." She ditched the Dutchman in Hawaii, but claims she met Ernest Hemingway there. "He called me Princess." As she booked passage home, "I saw this gorgeous hunk of body with...
Harvard had one final moment of frustration late in the third period. With U.N.H. goalie Smith caught 20 feet out of the goal for the second time during the game, third-liner Bobby Havern took a slapshot at the lone defenseman guarding the open net and missed the cage...
...theater or took long lunches. Some even savored lazy afternoons playing miniature golf on the West Wing carpets, using overturned glasses for cups. But most were eager enough to get back to work and sure that there would be plenty of it. As a favorite one-liner had it: "The trouble with Chinese diplomacy is that an hour later you are hungry again...