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...Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger in the oil and made the sign of the cross on both the Queen's hands, on her breast and on the crown of her head. He spoke the ancient words: "As kings, priests and prophets were anointed, and as Solomon...
...trim, new, diesel-powered ship, the Marquette, pulled alongside its dock at Chicago last week, leather-faced Captain André Senft, 40, broke out a bottle of champagne and drank a toast to Chicago. It was the first time a vessel flying the French flag had touched shore there since Father Marquette beached his frail canoe...
...white man's whip, Cinqué put everybody to work, headed the Amistad back to Africa with Montes at the wheel. By night, while Cinqué slept and less alert men kept watch, Montes eased the schooner north, hoping to land in the U.S. These tactics brought the vessel, about a month after the mutiny, within sight of Long Island, in the main sea road to New York...
...Decided that the presidential yacht Williamsburg was a "needless luxury," ordered the gleaming 244-ft. vessel mothballed during his term in office. ¶ Recommended that the Government's $550 million worth of synthetic rubber plants, created during World War II, be turned over to private industry...
Most impressive scene: the climactic sequence as the ship strikes a submerged iceberg, and approximately two hours later sinks ponderously into a calm, moonlit, icy sea, while those left on the doomed vessel sing Nearer My God to Thee...