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SAID an angry sailor on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba...
...frustrated and disillusioned, worried about "instant appeasement" and "going under painlessly." At one of the clubs on the base, they play a game bitterly called "containment shuffleboard-a game you don't try to win, but simply try to keep your opponent from scoring too high." As one sailor put it: "I'd like to think that one day we would have the guts to do something-but I doubt it." "It's hard to hold your head up these days when you see these Cubans being mauled at the gate by Communists," said another. "I never...
Having been soundly trounced by 3 min. 46 sec. in the first race, the Aussies came out for the second match in the kind of day to gladden any Sydney sailor's heart. The balmy 15-knot breeze had be come a tearing, 25-knot northwest wind; heavy swells rolled across the green Atlantic, and off to the horizon spray-laden whitecaps filled the scene. It was Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful...
Samuel George Frederick Brandon, 54, author of Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions, is the son of a Devonshire sailor; he was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1932, earned his doctorate in divinity while campaigning with Britain's First Army in North Africa during World War II. In 1951, he gave up a career as an army officer to accept his present post as professor of comparative religion at the University of Manchester, and presented a concise version of Man and His Destiny in the Wilde Lectures on Natural and Comparative Religion at Oxford between...
Some of the cops were over 6 ft. and 200 lbs. Some of them had peculiar bulges under their skirts that could only have been made by service revolvers. Few of them would have turned the head of a castaway sailor. But they got plenty of action-and results. By hiding behind a woman's skirts, New York City's decoys made 23 arrests in the first three days of the operation. They even hauled in three girls who, on closer examination, turned out to be males themselves...