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...strength and taken on an ever larger role in the war. The men were forced to work 18-to 20-hour days and go long stretches without weekend passes. The lack of sleep and shore leave simply compounded the racial tensions to be found on any stateside naval vessel...
When news of the court order reached the ship's officers, they steered the vessel into Rotterdam rather than Le Havre. Kennecott then got a Dutch court to order the impounding not only of the cargo but of the ship as well. The vessel was finally permitted to leave port, but only on condition that it proceed to Le Havre and unload the copper there, where payment for it cannot be made until final disposition of the case...
...crowded shipping lanes like the English Channel, this maneuver may be an invitation to disaster; the lumbering vessel needs vast stretches of open water for such turns...
Encouraged by the tests with their models, the British researchers recently equipped a 200-ton cargo vessel with their super rudder. Tested off the Isle of Wight, the vessel ran circles around other ships of its size: it could turn on its own axis, stop in only seconds, and effectively operate with its rudder turned up to an angle of 90°. The British scientists concede that the device will probably not work as spectacularly with heavier ships. Their calculations show, however, that a 250,000-ton tanker should be able to turn completely around in only about...
...deploring the deportation of Catholic bishops, the arrest of priests, and the closing or destruction of churches. Perhaps the most moving appeal was made by Simas Kudirka, the Lithuanian sailor who was sentenced to ten years at hard labor for having attempted to escape aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel in 1970. At his 1971 trial, Kudirka cried: "All I demand is an independent Lithuania, one that is not occupied by any army, and has a free, democratic system of elections...