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Constellation fought his way across the mountaintops toward Geneva with 40 Pakistani seamen bound for England to man the newly launched freighter Queen City. A monk in the lofty monastery of St. Bernard thought he heard a noise. Two days later the Constellation's wreckage was sighted on the 15,781-foot peak of Mont Blanc by a pilot in a sport plane...
...gossip in Swedish seaports last week was that the 35,000-ton Sovietsky Soyuz (the Soviet Union), the U.S.S.R.'s first battleship, was making trial runs in the eastern Baltic. It was the first report heard by the Western world since January, when word came over the seamen's grapevine that the ship had been commissioned...
...Australia, Publisher William Pardon Burns of the Communist Sydney Tribune was sentenced to nine months in jail for sedition. The Tribune had urged Australian seamen to boycott cargoes for Korea...
...Chinese coast, 100 miles from Formosa, the Red Seamen's Union had mobilized a million tons of wooden shipping, rebuilt junks as landing craft...
...seamen of Ystad and Tralleborg shook their heads as the frail craft headed southwest. "They'll never clear a storm," they murmured. Eight days later the Lusty Snake passed through the Kiel Canal into the North Sea. Young Navigator Börje Persson, 26, who had just got his master's papers and quit his job on a trawler to join the voyagers, set the course for Rotterdam...