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...that next island and try to hail one of our patrols," he said. From then until show's end, day and night, Shafty swam and swam and swam; the camera caught him barechested, fighting currents, rolling almost unconscious in the swirl, negotiating dangerous reefs, coughing, stumbling through the underbrush. "Let me tell you," says Crewman Maguire, "there's a guy." Soon some friendly natives were smuggling Shafty to safety and a rescue team. After a few more dips, the whole crew climbed aboard a U.S. PT boat, uncorked a "medicinal" bottle of hooch and sang Jesus Loves...
...irregulars in Mexico and landed with 81 of them, seasick but nervy, in Cuba's southern Oriente province (TIME, Dec. 10, et seq.). The Batista forces killed about 30 in confused skirmishes, but the rest fought and dodged their way through the army and into the tangled underbrush of the Sierra Maestra...
...world a diplomatic achievement of first importance. As the delegated eyes and ears of the combustible Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians, Saud now thoroughly understood-if he could not yet publicly embrace-the Eisenhower doctrine. The talks, as President Eisenhower told his press conference, had cleared away much of "the underbrush of misunderstanding"; now the seeds could be planted, and clearly Saud would be a valued planter of U.S. offers of friendship and protection among his fellow Arabs...
...terminated. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union, but a circuit court overruled NLRB. By ruling that the term "expiration date" can refer to the time when a contract reopens as well as to when it terminates, the Supreme Court cleared away the legal underbrush hampering the spread of long-term contracts with reopener clauses...
...Democrats." The answer was simple. As always, his purpose was to state "the truth as I know it, the facts as I know them." Some people, however, occasionally distort the truth. In such cases, although he didn't personally enjoy it, it becomes "necessary to clear away this underbrush of misunderstanding...