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...last week walked two gaunt, hollow-eyed newsmen. After 18 months' imprisonment, NBC Correspondent Richard Applegate and I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon were released by the Chinese Communists. With them was a U.S. merchant marine officer, Ben Krasner, captured with them while they were cruising on Applegate's sailboat Kert in international waters west of Hong Kong...
...newsmen who vanished behind the Chinese Communist bamboo curtain more than a year ago were reported released this week. I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, 26, and National Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Richard Applegate, 38, were captured by a Red gunboat while vacationing aboard their sailboat Kert in waters west of Hong Kong. Along with their U.S.-born captain, Dixon and Applegate were taken prisoner, accused of "intruding into China's waters." Repeated U.S. attempts to have them released failed. This week the Communist Peking radio announced that they and their skipper had been "deported" from Red China and were on their...
...overtures, but "his stumbling attempt to play the palsey Pop [was] so patently gawky" that Damon Jr. thought his father was just performing an unpleasant chore. Even Runyon's presents were wrong. Damon Jr. was afraid of the huge electric train and could not even lift the sailboat with a five-foot mainmast...
When he was five, his grandfather had aroused in Robert an interest in minerals. He had a sailboat which he named Trimethy-after trimethylene bichloride, a compound for which he had apparently developed an attachment...
...floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will tote- among other frills-a doctor's operating room, sailboat, speedboat and amphibian airplane. When he has nothing else to do (such as dropping in at Monte Carlo's famed Casino, which he owns, crap tables and all), Onassis will rough it on the Christina and use her for an office...