Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ralph Zani was first in the breaststroke with team mate Ken Emerson second. Pete Dillingham won the dive event, and Marv Sandler took the 220 yard freestyle in 2.18. Harvard's 400 yard relay team...
...tiny veranda of his two-room, wattle-and-daub hut outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
Horseback Clinics. Reser is the last survivor of the U.S. Marines' 19-year (1915-34) occupation of Haiti. A Utah-born Mormon, who joined the Navy in his youth to see the world, he went to the island 25 years ago as a chief pharmacist's mate assigned to conduct horseback clinics for ailing peasants. Reser took to the people and their tropical ways at once. He studied the properties of native herbs, listened to the advice of voodoo doctors...
Died. Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, 78, survivor of the White Star liner Titanic, which hit an iceberg in 1912 and sank with 1,500 of the some 2,200 people on board; in Twickenham, England. As the ship's second mate, he told a Senate investigation committee that the luxury liner was making too much speed through a known ice field, but admitted that after the crash he had only half-filled the lifeboats because he didn't believe that the "unsinkable" Titanic was really going under. He stayed on board until the ship reared vertically...
...stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards and lashes them to the mast. But Blackbeard's dark deeds finally catch up with him when his own men, led by First Mate William Bendix, bury him up to his neck in the sand and leave him to await the incoming tide (in real life, Blackbeard was shot by a British lieutenant on the high seas...