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...revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory in 1953 despite close Communist surveillance and his long-held conviction that he need not be "a political...
...Venezuela goes into its fifth year under Pérez Jiménez, many of the other passengers on the oil-powered dreamboat profess to admire the skipper's hard-fisted style of command. "Don't rock the boat," say prosperous U.S. businessmen, happily noting the political quiet, record oil production, boom-time construction and the rising standard of living (70% up in the last decade). But the advice is given so often as to reflect at least a subconscious awareness that the boat may be somewhat unseaworthy. Sample weaknesses...
...Bellingshausen, a Baltic German in the service of Czar Alexander I. Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards, to his disappointment, he met a mariner who had been there before him: a Yankee named Nathaniel Palmer, skipper of a U.S.-flag sealer. Bellingshausen (clearly the kind of sportsman who would displease the Soviet Union today), magnanimously named the territory he had sighted after Palmer...
REAR ADMIRAL D. V. GALLERY, wartime skipper of the carrier Guadalcanal and chief of Naval Reserve Air Training in Glenview, III., writing in the SATURDAY EVENING POST...
Died. Vice Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, 63, victorious wartime skipper of the battleship South Dakota at the battles of Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal in late 1942, postwar Judge Advocate General of the Navy; of a heart ailment; in San Diego...