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...splintered mast pierced the deck. Harvey was separated from the others by the fallen mast; then fire broke out in the fuel storage tank, spreading to the crumpled sails. Quickly, Harvey released the dinghy and a raft, ordered the others to abandon ship. Then he dived after them and swam to the drifting dinghy. He recovered René, unconscious while floating in an oversized life jacket, from the water. The five others had vanished in the sea. The next morning the child was dead, and Harvey was picked up by a passing ship...
...Nationalist island of Formosa last week, there was a march past of 11,000 troops while 160 jet fighters roared overhead. A dozen Nationalist frogmen swam ashore on the uninhabited Red Chinese island of Pinglangyu and planted Nationalist flags on the beach. In Taipei, Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek declared that conditions on the mainland resembled those of 1911, "when even the officers and men of the Manchu 'new army' were longing for the great day that was soon to dawn." With stubborn, visionary optimism, Chiang predicted large-scale uprisings soon in Red China, and promised that he would...
...program in 1948 with fertilized eggs from chinook salmon that run up Soos Creek, well south of Seattle. He hatched the eggs in tanks on the campus and nursed the infant salmon until they grew into fingerlings. Then he washed them down a sluice into Lake Union, and they swam out into the Pacific. After four years, the college-bred salmon returned to the campus full grown, like old grads gathering for a class reunion...
...last week, desperate clusters of East Berliners were still trying to break out to freedom. Only a few were successful. One elderly man and wife crawled on hands and knees across a cemetery near the boundary as "Vopos" strung barbed wire only 20 yds. away. A young married couple swam the Teltow Canal with their four-year-old child perched on his father's shoulders. A couple of East Germans returning from a late movie, saw the tanks, sprinted across to the American sector just in time...
Horse-Collar Rescue. Whatever the cause of the mishap, the next few moments were hectic. One helicopter tried to snap up the Liberty Bell 7. The second could not come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...