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Sandwiched between two barges carrying 40 loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made...
Like most of the world's wandering peoples, Armenians cherish the dream of home. In Manhattan, last week, 150 of the 150,000 Armenians in the U.S. found the tug of homesickness too strong to resist. They stepped aboard the trim, white Soviet steamship Rossia, sailed for the old country-now a part of the U.S.S.R...
Like others caught in the middle, Lyuh did a lot of shilly-shallying. His enemies called him "The Silver Ax"-he looked fine, but he would not cut. He thought Korea could be unified without violence, "unless we let the extreme rights and lefts play tug...
...many-armed U.S. Government last week was engaged in a tug-of-war with itself over Preston Tucker, designer of a rear-engined automobile named the Tucker 48 (once the Torpedo). The War Assets Administration had leased Tucker the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant, world's largest. He had promised to have $15 million in cash on hand by July 1 to build cars...
...N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne, the breakup was the end of a dream to weld his loose confederation into a single, tight union at the Miami convention next month. It also meant the beginning of a jurisdictional tug-of-war between A.F.L. and C.I.O. for possession of N.F.T.W.'s seceding affiliates. For A.T. & T., the call that broke N.F.T.W. might well prove to be a wrong number...