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...Atlantic west of the Canary Islands. Japanese fishermen that work that remote area figure they will be away from home for at least six months at a time. Since the ocean currents often shift (carrying the tuna with them), the board's survey ships keep constant vigil, reporting their findings to the fishing boats lest they travel 10,000 miles only to find no fish...
...workers, suggested that barbers, beauticians, clerks, waiters and chauffeurs were in a particularly good position to turn in their customers. "Every servant," added Castro, "every employee of one of these rich men that attack the revolution, is a working and humble Cuban who defends the revolution and maintains his vigil." Two days later, to "hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook," Castro's Cabinet decreed that all property of convicted "counter-revolutionaries" will be seized-as broad a license for governmental stealing as was ever written...
...that ravaged Italy scarcely ruffled the courtship. When the bridge over the Po was destroyed by bombers, Francesco bought a boat and rowed across to continue his vigil. Once Angela stuffed her purse with stones, and when Francesco yearningly approached her, she hit him on the head with one. The next day, he was back, begging her forgiveness...
...Sept. 23 The VIP (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* Mr. K. visits the Garst farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. TV cameras will be sighting in from every angle, hopeful of shooting some well-cured country ham. They will be keeping the vigil all week, at all hours, on all networks...
...weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days he, Beria, Bulganin and Malenkov had kept their vigil at Stalin's dacha while the great man lay in a final coma. Suddenly. Stalin awoke, and weakly pointing to a picture of a little girl feeding a lamb, "indicated by his gesture that now he was as helpless as the lamb. A few minutes later he died...