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...longest of the tall ships is the 375-ft. Russian bark Kruzenshtern, built in 1926 and, like most of the others, used as a training ship for naval cadets. The oldest is the American barkentine Gazela Primeiro, built in 1883 as a fishing vessel and now owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage...
...small pox is one of the oldest scourges on earth. In North America, the Colonies have already suffered more than 50 epidemics. The disease is extremely contagious, often fatal, and there is no known cure. But there is a highly controversial and dangerous treatment: inoculation. This consists of placing pus from a blister on an infected person directly into the bloodstream of a healthy one. In theory, this causes a mild form of the disease and therefore protects the inoculated person from ever catching it again. But because of the dangers, not only to the person being inoculated...
Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American-after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith...
...potential terrors of their situation. "... his host brought him an aspirin, and finally the young terrorist lay down on his bed in the room where he had been hiding almost six months now. They put the dynamite inside a closet in the room in which his parents and his oldest daughter slept. About an hour later another terrorist appeared to take back the borrowed dynamite. He was very nervous and on leaving the house he hesitated an instant before stepping down to the gate...
...heavies won the four-mile race by 64 seconds, crossing the finish line in 23:43.9. It was the 14th consecutive time Harvard has taken the race, the oldest intercollegiate athletic event in America...