Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sailor Beware...
IMMIGRATION Sailor, Beware The French liner Liberté steamed past its bronze namesake in New York harbor one day last week, passengers and crew abustle with expectation of Christmas in New York. The passengers tripped ashore, most of them worrying about nothing more serious than whether Customs would find that extra bottle of Arpege cached in the shaving kit. But 271 members of the crew were held on board. Reason: they had run afoul of the new McCarran Walter Immigration law which went into effect at midnight...
Veranda Consultations. Doc Reser lives frugally on his retired sailor's pension, and is known as a soft touch for almost any countryman who passes his door with a hard-luck story. He drops in at Sonny Griswold's American Bar in Port-au-Prince' occasionally for a rum-and-drum session with visiting U.S. bluejackets. He paints and sketches reads and talks with tourists and others who come to him for voodoo information.-Oldtimers have estimated that Doc has 10,000 Haitian friends. When asked if he ever thinks of going back to Utah, he says...
...this conflict sprung a band of militant Torch Commandos led by Sailor Malan, a distant relation to the Premier. Their motto: Save the constitution. "They are working in close union with the anti-administration United party." Box said, "focusing attention on this issue with night time demonstrations...
...bomb meant that the U.S., in its search for ever more powerful weapons, had caught something of the secret of the sun's own power. It was the kind of event to date the beginning of a new era. But the men who watched the test-including a sailor who drew a diagram of the explosion in his letter (see NEWS IN PICTURES)-caught the meaning better than any of the headlines. They simply called the explosion "Lulu...