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...sailors never die; they just wade away. While patrolling the Mediterranean, the U.S. Sixth Fleet hosted a junketing group of West German dignitaries, plus two retired U.S. flag officers. Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, 74, a hero of the historic Battle for Leyte Gulf, and Vice Admiral Calvin Durgin, 68, also a battle-tried World War II task-group skipper. When the time came for the guests to shift from the supercarrier Forrestal to the missile cruiser Springfield, a high line was rigged, and the vessels slowed to 15 knots. "Which seat will you take?" asked Durgin, as their turn came...
...myself in the hands of God." With demoniac energy Dr. Guida began organizing, soon got the Italian government to agree to handle radio messages between CIRM and Italian ships at sea and tiny island outposts in the Mediterranean. The service, provided then as now by volunteer doctors, expanded from there. Today 60% of CIRM's "patients" are aboard non-Italian ships and 80% are outside the Mediterranean. Despite a wartime shutdown CIRM has handled 52,500 messages, treated more than 7,500 cases aboard hundreds of ships of 22 nationalities.* "It would cost a small fortune to be treated...
...Tatti was long the residence and workshop of Bernard Berenson. Left to the University in Berenson's will, the villa will become a research center for scholars studying the history and culture of the Mediterranean world, particularly in the field of the Italian Renaissance, for which the I Tatti library is famous...
...states were pushing up like exotic flowers from the jungles and savannas, from the cloud-rimmed mountains and sandy wastes of the last continent to awaken politically. Despite the daily shedding of blood from the Mediterranean littoral to the Cape of Good Hope, independence has come quietly and with peace to most of Africa's 240 million. If Algeria is at last on the way to peace, only the Congo currently remains as a running sore...
...Sept. 5) to a large degree abandoned the austere international style that has dominated modern architecture, instead dipped far into the past for inspiration. The five archways and the tapered columns on the front portico go back to the Greek stoas and the Renaissance loggias that looked down upon Mediterranean plazas. The Great Hall is severe but rich, and Johnson's elegance manages to shelter whooping cowpunchers and bucking broncos without dampening their bronze spirits. The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is meant to display the Old West, not to tame...