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...Bahamas,, the destroyers John R. Pierce and Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.* took up stations behind a Russian-chartered Lebanese freighter named the Marucla (built in Baltimore during World War II). At daybreak on Friday, in a scene reminiscent of the 19th century, the Kennedy lowered away its whaleboat and sent a boarding party aboard the Marucla, which cooperatively provided a ladder. Wearing dress whites, Lieut. Commander Dwight G. Osborne, executive officer of the Pierce, and Lieut. Commander Kenneth C. Reynolds, the exec of the Kennedy, led the party aboard the ship. After politely serving his visitors coffee, the Greek captain...
...reported by radio that he was dry and comfortable and would prefer to be picked up while still in his own ship. "A sweet little bird," he remarked. Helicopters dropped frogmen into the water, and they attached inflatable tubes to keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch on deck. Schirra climbed out and was borne away for a physical examination...
Oceanographer Ewing, called "Doc" by admirers and "The Dragon" by some others, was born in Lockney, Texas of a farm family. He put himself through Houston's Rice Institute, taught physics at Lehigh University. In 1934 he got a summer job tossing hunks of blasting gelatin from a whaleboat off the East Coast so that the recorded shock waves could be used to study the sediments on the bottom. Ever since, the ocean's bottom has been Maurice Swing's oyster. But unlike most oceanographers, he is no sentimental sea dog. He dislikes the ocean itself...
Photographic Commissar. Under command of Lieut. Donald Sheely, 34, the Minnesota-born, Annapolis-trained executive officer, Hale's motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
Oxonians take pride in the fact that Oxford won the first Boat Race in 1829. For that race, rowed in long, whaleboat-like shells. Oxford turned up in straw hats, dark blue striped jerseys and canvas trousers, while Cambridge added a gentle note with pink sashes. But from 1829 to modern times, the advantage has been Cambridge's. Between 1924 and 1937 the light blue was unbeaten for 13 straight years. Last week, with the series standing at 54 for Cambridge, 44 for Oxford, and a dead heat in 1877, heavier (by 5 Ibs. a man) Cambridge was favored...