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...Shrimp Noises. Even in a craft as large as Skylab, the Navy consultants say, astronauts feel the same "stimulus impoverishment" as submariners. Consciously and unconsciously, they miss such familiar sights as trees, animals and sunrises. "There is nothing that lives or grows," says Submarine Medical Officer William Tansey. "It is all flashing lights, air conditioning and bells. You lose your grasp on the real world." One result aboard submarines on long missions is that sailors vie for space in the sonar room to hear the mating calls of whales or swimming noises of shrimp...
...this one is excellent and probably the most reasonably priced around Boston. It is advisable to get there early since a two-hour wait later in the evening is not unusual. But if forced to wait, the clam bar upstairs is not a bad place to do it. The shrimp in garlic is one of the menu's highlights, and a bucket of steamers is always a good and relatively inexpensive dinner. All the salt water entrees are fresh, of course. The Legal Sweetshop is also worth a visit...
...raising escape attempts from France's antiquated dungeons in French Guiana; of throat cancer; in Madrid. Charrière, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1931 for murder, finally broke out of Devil's Island in 1941 and found asylum in Caracas, where he became a gold prospector, shrimp fisherman, bar owner and eventually a best-selling author, with 14 million book sales worldwide...
...James Swanson, 31, a native of Brownsville, Texas, is better known to the Vietnamese in his new home of Ben Tre as "Ong Tom" (Mr. Shrimp). He is determined to make himself a wealthy man by selling that tasty commodity...
...first as an infantryman, nine months after the Tet offensive. The town had been partially destroyed, as an American major so memorably remarked, "in order to save it." Swanson returned for a second Viet Nam tour as an adviser in 1970 and dreamed up the idea of buying shrimp from Delta fishermen and reselling it in the lucrative Saigon market. After his discharge in July 1972, he put up $3,000 of his own money, talked $20,000 out of four Vietnamese partners, and went into business. Swanson expects a profit margin of 20% by the end of this year...