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...staff. They'll say: "Why don't you guys do so and so?" We have the technicians here who decide what is possible and what is not. It's the same sort of thing you get with military activity. How you land troops on a hostile shore is not developed in the White House. The Joint Chiefs develop a proposal. Then if the White House approves it, you go ahead...
Newport Shipyard was quiet around 4 p.m. the afternoon of Race Four. Two miles offshore, however, Courageous had just successfully defended the America's Cup by the whopping margin of 7:19 in the final battle of the series. The radios on shore were the only clue to the jubilation on the water, as Hoyt bubbled over about the victorious American crew popping champagne on the deck as they waited for the Southern Cross to finish...
...government embarrassedly ordered the Mutsu to make repairs at sea. Technicians first smeared a paste of rice and boron (an element that absorbs neutrons) over the shields without success. Next polyethylene shields were dispatched from shore that should stop the leak. Meantime, the fishermen vowed to form a barricade of boats to bar the freighter from its home port. Other Japanese cities are no more anxious to receive it. At week's end critics were saying that the Mutsu should become the world's first nuclear Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail ceaselessly without ever putting in to land...
Never a sailor to waste his shore leave, England's Prince Charles, 25, took his latest R. and R. in the company of blonde Davina Sheffield, debutante daughter of an English army major...
...Portugal under military escort. Last week the archbishop found himself being hustled away. After a visit from a Vatican cardinal, Pereira abruptly resigned his Mozambique diocese, apparently to take up some vague duties in Rome in preparation for the 1975 Holy Year. In a rather belated effort to shore up church credibility in the soon to be independent Portuguese colonies, the Vatican is moving to rid the territories of churchmen who were too closely tied to the old colonial posture. Whatever credibility remains, of course, will probably be due to the compassion of the very missionaries whom Archbishop Pereira once...