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...young men of the 2,200-ton U.S. destroyer Maddox, patrol duty in Tonkin seemed as ho-hum and hum drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them...
Already on the drawing boards is a 20,000-ton transatlantic boatel with a capacity of 240 cars and 1,000 passengers, which the company hopes will be making five-day runs between Europe and the U.S. by 1967-at a basic round-trip fare of $225, including car and berth but not food. Minimum in-season price on a regular ship with...
...program consists of Suite de Premier Ton by Louis-Nicolas. Clerambault; Sonata I by Paul Hindemith; Prelude and Fugue in A minor by S. J. Bach; Sonata III, Op. 65 by Felix Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ, Celesta, and Percussion by Daniel Pinkham. The latter number will be conducted by the composer...
Last year no fewer than 19 foreign and 66 scheduled domestic airlines were serving Latin America, one of the greatest proliferations of aviation service anywhere in the world. All told, the lines traveled some 5 billion passenger-miles, carried over 94 million ton-miles of cargo, and could point to some impressive traffic growth: 175% in the past ten years, v. 117% for the rest of the world. Argentina, Chile and Colombia have all more than tripled their passenger traffic since 1954; Uruguay is up almost 400%, while Brazil ranks third in the free world (after the U.S. and Canada...
...Ferris's recital will feature Suite du Premier Ton by Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Sonata 1 by Paul Hindemith, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor by J.S. Bach, Sonata 111, Opus 65 by Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ Celests, and Percussion (1963), by Daniel Pinkham. The final number will be conducted by the composer...