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...record 65 sailing vessels are entered in the 635 mile run from the Brenton Reef Light-vessel to St. David's Head, according to the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Club, co-sponsors of the race...
Under the present plan, the Svalbard, a vessel owned by Norway and leased to the International Refugee Organization, will leave New York for Rotterdam or Le Havre on June 22, returning to New York by September...
...drinking the divine nectar which was kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with God. Best time to bathe is Kumbh-mela (Urn Festival), which occurs once every twelve years in each of the four cities where the drops...
...They burned the marketplace, tore down U.S. and French flags. From the hills around Saigon, Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas opened up on the destroyers with heavy mortar and machine-gun fire. The ships' crews were called to battle stations, but did not return the fire. Neither vessel was hit. A detachment of French troops finally dispersed the rioters. The casualty total: three dead,30 injured...
...made up his mind for him. His attorney went ahead with plans for appeal-just in case his bosses left him in the lurch. But they didn't. After four days, Gubichev got his orders: he would be shipped out on the Polish liner Batory, the useful Communist vessel which had once carried off ex-Communist Spy Gerhart Eisler as a stowaway...