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...While his rivals tacked over the longer blue-water route, Cuba's Dr. Luis Vidana daringly skippered his Criollo, a 67-ft. yawl with a 9-ft. draft, through shoal waters, sailed off with first place in the 24th St. Petersburg-Havana race and a sure grip on the Southern Ocean Racing Conference-championship. "If you do not take hances," Vidana quipped, "you might as well stay home and fix the garden." ¶When The Netherlands pulled its team out of last fall's Olympic Games because of international tensions, 16-year-old Ti-neke Lageberg lost...
...Mohammed the Prophet, Arabs have had a single, possessive name for the littoral lands that stretch along the African shore of the Mediterranean from Tripoli to Casablanca -"Djezira-el-Maghreb," or "Island of the West." In Cairo last week, where Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser keeps a small shoal of exiles from French North Africa (some fleeing trouble, some fomenting it), Egypt's ambitious Arab nationalists were worried by reports of a plan designed to take Maghreb out from under their noses...
After first ascertaining that the Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small...
...film begins as the clipper sets out to sea. First off, the crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...
...Shoal Waters. In Mobile. Ala., Seaman John W. Jones sued the United Fruit Co. for $75,200 damages after he wrenched his back fleeing from a snake in his bunk, slipped on a grease smear and fell off an engine-room ladder...