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...helm for more than 24 hr., trying to stay in "good water." His eyes dart with worry as the Cavalier passes points that were mapped with sailors' lives: Icy Cape, Skull Cliff, Deadman's Island. Legs braced, he peers at the radar as Second Mate Rod Doe, 22, calls out compass bearings. Haifa mile in front, another tug, Navigator, comes across shallow water and its tow chains drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks like a horse...
...soap is almost the ideal consumer product," says Rod Hickman, 37, vice president of marketing for Jovan, the perfume and cosmetics manufacturer. "It fits into the hand, you can pick it up easily, and it's inexpensive. In fact, it's hard to beat...
...Rod and Ronald Reagan's old Iowa neighbors have been quietly at work this summer putting together some more good luck to hand to the President in the fall. Unless there is unprecedented capriciousness on the part of nature in the next few days, the heavy ears of corn will mature by the trillions. They will either set a new record for yield, more than 127 bu. per acre, or come so close it hardly matters. And the soybeans, with almost human cunning, are making quite a show of their last 6 in. of growth. Forecasters expect them...
That is dazzlingly clear from the first four programs, the only ones yet available for viewing. Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand, begins the series. Then, dribbled out one a month, come Bang the Drum Slowly, with Paul Newman, Albert Salmi and George Peppard; No Time for Sergeants, with Andy Griffith; and The Days of Wine and Roses, with Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. After them come The Comedian, with Mickey Rooney, and A Doll's House, with Julie Harris and Jason Robards. The last two shows in the series have not yet been chosen. The producers...
Pediatric Surgeon Michael Harrison used a needle to guide a small blue tube, or catheter, into the fetus' bladder to drain urine into the amniotic fluid. Then he withdrew the needle, using a yellow push rod to hold the catheter in place. On the day after the baby, named Michael, was born in May, Harrison removed the catheter and created an opening for urine to drain from the small of his back. Said Harrison: "Michael will probably have to have another operation to reconstruct his urinary tract, but he should live a normal life...