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...British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...
...point of view, is a radical treatment of some forms of malocclusion worked out at Yale Medical School by Dr. Bert George Anderson. By building up a complicated engineering structure of small bands, spurs and wire in the mouth, Dr. Anderson brings both teeth and jaws into alignment. His rig makes talking and eating a little difficult, but he leaves it in place for only a short time. From two days' to two weeks' application, he claims, brings teeth into line as perfectly as uncomfortable months of the older methods...
...their mistakes, Professor Morison decided to apply the alfresco, learn-by-doing methods that Francis Parkman used for his History of France in the New World. In the summer of 1939 Morison and some friends bought the barkentine, Capitana, which was "near enough to Columbus' larger ships in rig and burthen to enable us to cross the ocean under conditions very similar to those of his day. . . ." In the Capitana they explored the European end of Columbus' routes, then headed back across the Atlantic. "Our crossing from Gomera to Trinidad was approximately on the route of [Columbus...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting and adjusting the rig in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese...
...when an alarm rings in, the well-oiled mechanism speeds into high gear without a check. At night, the men can awaken from a deep sleep, jump into their "night rig," scoot down the pole, and be away with sirens screaming in 26 seconds. Every motion has been carefully studied to see where life-saving minutes can down. The rescue squad, with first aid equipment, goes out on all alarins. Sometimes it in called by doctors who need oxygen immediately for, heart cases; suiciden, drown longs and gas victims always rate the rescue truck manned by experts n accident work...