Word: tranquillity
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...steady snow was falling on Lake Huron as the 603-ft. freighter Daniel J. Morrell steamed toward Taconite, Minn., for a load of iron ore, but the night was otherwise tranquil. Watchman Dennis Hale, 26, ended his tour of duty, had a snack in the galley and headed for his bunk. Six hours later, he was awakened by "two loud thumps," followed by the insistent clang of the emergency bell. Clad only in underwear and peacoat (he couldn't find his trousers), Hale sped topside-and gasped at what he saw. Lashed by a sudden, severe Great Lakes storm...
Such a retrospective has now been given William Glackens at St. Louis' City Art Museum,* the painter's first since a memorial show assembled shortly after his death in 1938. At that time Glackens seemed out of fashion, with his tranquil ladies, summer-resort scenes and cityscapes thronged with meandering crowds. Today, his obvious borrowing from Renoir's palette seems less important than the pleasures of his sinuous brush stroke, sauciness of color, and the pure joyousness of his subjects. Although Glackens borrowed the impressionists' glasses, he saw the American scene with eyes that were first...
...surface, Nigeria seemed tranquil enough. A dozen ocean-going freighters thrashed seaward from Lagos' Apapa Quay, laden with cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes...
...Tranquil Zone. The "overriding rule" of foreign policy, said the President, is that it "must always be an extension of our domestic policy," and for that reason he deeply mistrusted any international experts who do not know their U.S. politics. "The reason for this is very simple. Politics are the means by which men give collective voice to their hopes and aspirations." Were a visitor from Mars to be brought back to earth "from one of the more memorable space probes of the Johnson Administration," the President continued, he would find "a zone of political tranquillity" in the U.S.-"except...
...beneath the easy, tranquil surface of both family and boy there flowed some unusual undercurrents. Charlie was trained to use guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them?and so were his brothers. "I'm a fanatic about guns," says his father, Charles A., 47. "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns." Charlie could plug a squirrel in the eye by the time he was 16, and in the Marine Corps he scored 215 points out of a possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though...