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...plan almost worked. Shortly before midnight, less than an hour after the frogmen had planted dynamite in the engine room, Disc Jockey West announced: "Flames are approaching the studio, we are abandoning the ship. Goodbye and God bless . . ." Everyone but the captain, the chief engineer and one sailor clambered overboard into lifeboats. But a Dutch tugboat, a firefighting ship from Rotterdam's Europort, a Dutch navy frigate carrying 250 battle-dressed marines, a navy Neptune reconnaissance plane and a helicopter all converged on the scene and put the fire out before it could damage the transmitter...
...Cisneros-"this tenderly nurtured girl," the New York Journal mourned, "imprisoned at eighteen among the most depraved Negresses of Havana." In the flesh, Evangelina was a bloodthirsty lass who tried to kidnap a Spanish officer, but no matter. The Journal had her smuggled out of prison disguised as a sailor and exhibited her triumphantly at an open-air reception in Madison Square. A half-century later came Fidel ("I am not a Communist") Castro, briefly a hero of U.S. journalism during the black-and-white-television era. He was, he said, fighting for a Cuba where "everyone could assemble, associate...
...Seventh Avenue assassins who work for Women's Wear Daily don't care whom they cut up with their sharp pinking shears-even America's First Fiancee, Tricia Nixon. After her picture appeared showing her, sweet and sailor-hatted, with her intended, Edward Cox, WWD's men named Tricia (who is 25) "one of the best-dressed children in America." Then they went on to nominate her for the 1971 Goody Two-Shoes Award. "She dresses as children should," they snickered on. "She's definitely one of the best-dressed subteens in the country. Will...
...acme of exhibitionism and possibly unconscious homosexual striving is seen in men who have tattoos on their penises. The classic example of this is the sailor who had what appeared to be a small dot of color tattooed on his glans penis, On erection, the dot turned into a full-blown picture of Old Glory unfurled...
When ships are run by computers that can plot the course, set the speed according to sea conditions, load and unload tanks, and even diagnose a sick sailor's ailment, the inevitable result is boredom. The scraping and painting that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely...