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Soon they were picked up by a Philippine merchant ship. He was sitting on the fantail of the ship when the enemy planes reappeared and began a bombing run. "Don't worry!" called the Philippine skipper. "They've been doing that all day long. They can't hit anything!" Replied Moorer: "We're not worried-yet!" But a direct hit changed his mind, and Moorer and his crew jumped overboard. Minutes later the merchant ship sank. Four men were killed, including one of Moorer's own men, but the 40 survivors rowed to a small...
Died. Augusto Frederico Schmidt, 58, Brazilian poet, politician and entrepreneur, a smalltime merchant's son who wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack...
Founded in 1930 by the wealthy merchant and Tamil culturist, Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar, the University has 3500 students (including 350 girls), and is entirely supported by the all-India University Grants Commission and the Madras State Government. One of five or six "residential universities" in India, it is organized along American lines...
...billion. Moreover, better than half of the red ink flows from a handful of state-owned enterprises that seem to succeed only in costing the country money. The state oil monopoly, Y.P.F., is expected to lose $120 million this year; millions more go for the state-run airline and merchant fleets...
...Monaco, the jet pace of life aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Shangri-La-there are some snappy stretches in this Cinerama travelogue, but there are plenty of languid interludes too. The film's ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time for exercise. The shallow narration, sung and sniggered through by Burl Ives, steers...