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...benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship. The Mont Blanc drifted across the harbor, nuzzled against a pier and set fire to it. People with minutes to live watched from harborside and rooftops. The crew of a tug mounted the Mont Blanc's decks to secure a hawser. The ship was so hot that the waters lapping it sizzled. Then it exploded...
Ranking immediately behind Dancer in money earnings in 1962 were Bill Haughton, 39, George Sholty, 30, Del Insko, 31, and John Chapman, 34. The national race-winning driver, in 1961 and 1962, was Bob Farrington, 33. New England's champion is Tug Boyd, 26. Chicago's leader in 1962 was Gene Riegle...
...that she is one of the most anonymous of all the wives of world leaders. A devout Roman Catholic, she is rumored to have vetoed a projected ministerial appointment because she disapproved of the sexual laxity of the man's wife. Her effect on De Gaulle is to tug him toward conformity, tone down his barracks vocabulary, soothe his rages. The De Gaulles use the vous form to each other, rather than the more intimate tu. Though this indicates a certain old-fashioned formality in their relations, it does not suggest any lack of affection...
...Tug of War. Khrushchev was obviously afraid that if he hesitated the U.S. would invade Cuba or destroy the bases; a backdown after such action would be far more humiliating than a retreat before. For years to come, political scientists will be studying and restudying the rapid exchange of messages between the Kremlin and the White House, as Khrushchev tried to forestall U.S. action and salvage what he could...
...ferry. Born in Harlem to Russian immigrants, he broke into the rag business 47 years ago as a messenger, has become one of its wealthiest titans. He roams and roars through Jonathan Logan's head offices, darting into showrooms to glad-hand buyers, dashing into design rooms to tug at fabrics and study new lines. He is kindly but curt. "Do me a favor," he shouts to an interloper in the company's design rooms...