Word: mates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen had other troubles. Second Mate David Fike told of a ruptured steam coil in one of the tanks, of inoperative automatic temperature gauges, and of worn packing around the screw. Though the ship was scheduled for a drydock inspection in January, the visit was postponed. The Queen, one of the T-2 tankers of World War II vintage, had a characteristic "weak back," and had to be checked carefully for keel fractures. The drydock inspection was postponed, said Fike, because Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., to whom the ship was chartered, "was behind in its orders of sulphur. The captain...
Then Silence. The ringleader was Wismar Medina Rojas. 28, second mate aboard the Anzoátegui. Smuggling eight FALN gunmen aboard the freighter, he surprised the rest of the 36-man crew. In a series of gloating radio messages, he identified himself and his henchmen, said that captain and crew were unharmed. Then silence from the Anzoátegui presumably on its way to Cuba and a propaganda triumph for Fidel Castro...
...human nostrils, but what it does to male cockroaches is a sight to behold. Only a bit more than one-third of a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of an ounce wafted into their cage starts them running around madly, vibrating their wings and trying to mate with each other...
Much better, say the Beltsville entomologists, is the sneakier scheme of using synthetic sex lure to trick the males into crawling over a chemical that will sterilize them but do them no harm in any other way. They will mate normally with normal females whenever they get the opportunity...
...cast speak a universal language. Masked and bearded for their roles, the actors show their youth only in their piping voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates a boat trip upriver. Using only two paddles as props, the players sway...