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...existed. FBI agents last week interviewed a student at Manhattan's Hunter College. One day before the Q.E. 2 was threatened, as it happened, her creative-writing workshop had discussed a short story she had written about a woman cancer victim and her friend, a male proofreader, who sail aboard the Queen and threaten to blow it up unless a famous diamond is surrendered to them. Wondering if life had imitated art with curious proximity, agents began checking out the workshop members...
Harvard's ownership of stock in the Gulf Oil Company helps perpetuate racist policies that extend well beyond Portuguese Angola to wherever on the high seas Gulf tankers sail to places in the United States where Gulf operates refineries at which hiring practices and the nature of the company's community involvement should be seriously questioned...
...Kresta II has a crew of 500 and a cruising speed of 33 knots. It carries one pair of surface-to-air missile launchers forward and another aft, each pair with its individual radar-guidance and fire-control unit. Towering atop the Kresta II is its big Top Sail surveillance radar, designed to spot enemy ships and planes. One back-to-back search radar unit tracks targets for Kresta II's principal weapons: eight surface-to-surface missiles housed in tubes on either side of the ship's bridge. The missiles reportedly have a range of 150 miles...
Family Sport. Ski tourers come in all sizes, sexes and ages. Steve Rieschl, who teaches skiing at Vail, says: "They're the same people who canoe, sail, backpack and camp. It's really a self-propelled sport." A novice tourer at Vail over Christmas was Wellington Koo, 84, formerly China's ambassador to the U.S. (1915-20 and 1946-56), who grew so enthusiastic over his first lesson that he summoned seven members of his family to join him on the slopes the next day. At Snowmass (Aspen), West Los Angeles Housewife Helen Mandel-so unathletic that...
Brinnin sets it all down, from the packet Savannah, which reached England under sail in 1819 using its steam engine mostly for public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full...