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...chances are good that when the passengers aboard Sandcastle Pier set sail, when they celebrate their hero's return by jumping up and down, that you will be grinning as delightedly as they are. Perhaps you understand why the admiral, alone and adrift on a portion of boardwalk, with cotton in his ears to prevent seasickness, quietly refuses offers of help...
...quips with Castro for hours, mentioned casually that it was a shame that the African Pilot would return to Miami empty. Castro said he would fill it with 1,000 relatives of the prisoners, called it his "Christmas bonus." Some bonus. As it turned out, 922 were permitted to sail-but only after signing over all their property and possessions to Castro's Communist government...
...York Attorney James B. Donovan-who had been coordinating his negotiations for the prisoners' release with Bobby Kennedy-announced that he had finally gotten the unpredictable dictator at long last to sign an agreement. The terms: a freighter, carrying a cargo of drugs, would sail for Havana; the Bay of Pigs prisoners would be shuttled back aboard four jetliners to U.S. soil before Christmas. In Florida, where thousands of wives and children waited, smiles flickered on faces long drawn by dread...
...faculty of 96 meets quarterly to review students' work and report the credit hours they deserve. Classes are small; electives are few. Science and humanities get equal stress in such ways as a senior seminar that attempts a whole vision of learning. Under a new plan, students can sail through in three years or plod through in five. They still face stiff junior-year qualifying exams, must write senior theses. Recent titles range from "Metal Ion Inhibition of Ribonuclease" to "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Instressing His Inscape...
...thou at home without or tide or gale, Canst in thy map securely sail... And from thy compast taking small advice Buy'st travel at the lowest price...