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...event in recent memory has more angered both the President and the American public than the forcible return of a defecting Lithuanian sailor to his Soviet ship last month. Simas (short for Simonas) Kudirka sought asylum aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant during a rendezvous-to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights-between the two vessels in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod. The incident resulted in the suspension of Rear Admiral William B. Ellis, commander of the Coast Guard's First District in Boston, his chief of staff, Captain Fletcher Brown, and Vigilant's skipper, Commander Ralph...
Commander Eustis deliberately misunderstood the order. He radioed back: "I believe if the Russians take Kudirka back aboard, his life is in jeopardy." He also informed Brown that, should Kudirka jump overboard, Vigilant would stand by to pick him up instantly...
...Russians let up once Kudirka was subdued. Aboard Vigilant's launch carrying the now unconscious defector and his captors back to the Russian ship, Boatswain's Mate Richard Maresca saw Kudirka "completely tied up and being handled like nothing more than a log. One Russian sat on the defector's head and kept punching him for the entire ride. Once we arrived alongside the Russian ship, they threw the defector from aft to amidships, and threw him into a net lowered from the Russian vessel...
...school. Foundations and the Federal Government agreed with his goal, came up with nearly $4,000,000. Allen raised faculty salaries to as much as $33,000 a year, signed on historians and economists as well as education professors, attracted 90 new doctoral candidates. Then he popped them all aboard a chartered 707 jet for a week of planning at a camp in the Rockies, where he bulled through his reforms. "A little change hurts," he soothingly told objectors, "but a lot of change doesn't hurt much more...
...unusual problem was encountered when a Los Angeles company called Chrysalis tried to set up a city of inflatable buildings in the California desert last summer. A sudden desert wind arose, reaching a velocity of 70 m.p.h. It whipped an 80-ft. by 30-ft. bubble (with ten men aboard) 25 ft. into the air. For a terrifying moment, the Chrysalis employees thought they had invented the blimp...