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Knives slashed across the throats of two sheep, and their blood gushed out onto the quay jutting into Istanbul harbor. The traditional Moslem ritual of sacrifice was supposed to guarantee a safe voyage for a blue-and-gray-hulled exploration vessel named Sismik-1. As the 1,200-ton Turkish ship steamed toward the Dardanelles, she was saluted by a cacophony of ship's whistles...
Finally, Thursday through Saturday, the New Theatre on Holyoke Street features a group that makes Kiss look like performers in a grade school Christmas play. The Tubes are synonomous with the word outrageous. Their lead singer goes under the name "Quay Lude" and song titles run along the lines of "Mondo Bondage" and "White Punks on Dope." Draw your own conclusions...
...quay, the wounded began arriving in midafternoon. All night long, they were loaded aboard old U.S. landing craft. By 4 in the morning, we were under way. There was no water or food aboard, nor were there any trained medical aides. A few men moaned and called out; one vomited blood and twisted in pain. Most suffered silently. At three points on the voyage, insurgents fired mortar and machine-gun rounds at the boats, providing a fearfully beautiful display of red and yellow flashes in the clear moonlight. By the time we arrived at Phnom-Penh, some...
From the outset, John and Mo Dean maintained a low social profile in their $70,000 brick town house on Quay Street in Alexandria's affluent Old Town section, just 200 yards from the Potomac. Now, of course, the profile is lower still. Occasionally, they eat out with the Goldwaters, who live across the street. One recent Saturday, another neighbor, Ervin Committee Member Lowell Weicker, dropped in for beer and pretzels. Before the worst of Watergate, the Deans played tennis and golf, swam and sailed their 18-ft. boat. Nattily dressed in broad-lapel suits and wide ties, Dean...
Veteran Gaullist Olivier Guichard, 52, a baron and longtime Pompidou protége, could be in line for Messmer's job. Schumann's spot at the Quay d'Orsay could go to his smooth-mannered deputy, André Bettencourt, 53, who was named Acting Foreign Minister last week when Schumann resigned...