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...most of the last 20 years, the U.S. has emptied its pockets abroad with the abandon of a sailor on shore leave. European bankers have grown hoarse warning that the dollar outflow and resulting drain of U.S. gold reserves could eventually wreck the purchasing power of the dollar overseas and endanger the world's monetary system. Last week a succession of dismal developments gave those warnings a new and compelling urgency...
Sara's flowers and her food were exquisite distillations of the seasonal crops. Gerald's daily attire, bought at a seamen's supply store, became the resort uniform: white duck trousers, striped jersey, the sailor's work cap that Scott called a jockey cap in the novel. What set the Murphys apart was a special, large-minded devotion to each other and to their friends. Dos Passos called the marriage "unshakable-everyone was at his best around the Murphys." Though she was notably candid with them, Sara in particular doted on her friends: "It wasn...
...grown up in New York City is supposed to be accustomed to handling street hassles. If she hasn't been kidnapped at infancy from a baby carriage parked in front of the A and P, she will still have a good chance of being accosted by a drunken sailor, robbed, heckled, smoked out of a Madison Avenue bus by a pyromaniac lighting matches on the back seat, and altogether pinched so often and in so many strange places that if the IRT subway line could be held responsible and sued it would go bankrupt faster than the Pennsylvania Central...
...months after he was brutally beaten, gagged and dragged from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter by six burly Russians, little was heard of Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka. Last November Kudirka, 32, sought asylum when his ship, the Sovietskaya Litva, tied up alongside the cutter Vigilant in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights. Ten hours after Kudirka jumped aboard the Vigilant and pleaded for sanctuary, Coast Guard headquarters in Boston ordered the Vigilant to allow Soviet sailors to take him back. The incident so outraged the country and incensed President Nixon that the Vigilant...
Kudirka suffered a harsher fate. Last week the Lithuanian Supreme Court in Vilna sentenced the sailor to ten years in a prison camp for treason...