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...when, steaming at full speed through fog over the Grand Banks, freighted with "manhood in its strength and daring, and woman in her trust and beauty, and youth with its sunny gladness," as a preacher wrote later, the Arctic collided with a small iron-hulled French steamship and sank. Crew members commandeered all but one of the lifeboats, and most of the 233 passengers, including the owner's wife and two children, drowned. Two years later the Collins Line's Pacific steamed into an ice field and disappeared without a trace. But nothing could alter the drive...
Wisconsin sank the Crimson after three minutes of sudden death play, however, and Harvard was faced with the impossible job of getting up for the consolation game with Penn, a team that had already fallen to the Crimson earlier this season...
Washington's official response was even slower. At first the State Department said only that the U.S. could make no protest since the ship was registered in Panama. Then, as the impact of Cuba's piratical act sank in. President Nixon personally intervened. As a sign of his concern, the President received Villa's wife at Key Biscayne and promised to do his best to secure the captain's immediate release. Later, the U.S. warned Cuba that it would take "all measures under international law" to protect American and other ships from further attacks...
...their brainpower and money to make his own dreams of the future come true. As a teenager, he taught himself telegraphy and talked his way into an operator's job at the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America. A classic tragedy gave him a big break; the Titanic sank in 1912, and Sarnoff stayed at his key for 72 hours in New York, relaying the news to the world. The Titanic brought much attention to the possibilities of radio communication -and Sarnoff, who soon became commercial manager of American Marconi...
...officers came under fire while trying to take skin samples from a rare Vietnamese mole. On another occasion, a California biologist set out for a remote and desolate island off Southern California, which Hsu had heard was the only habitat of a certain rodent. The biologist's boat sank, and he was marooned for three days. He fed himself on bait he had brought for the rodents...