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Four years after the war, white-haired, Roman-nosed Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, ailing and half blind, sat in the dock of a British military court in Hamburg, charged with 17 war crimes in Poland and Russia (more than any other general indicted by the Western Allies): condoning the murder of Jews and other minorities, the execution without trial of Russian commissars, the deportation of Russians to slave labor. Many Britons considered the long-delayed trial unfair, and contributed ?1,620 to his defense (Winston Churchill sent ?25), but Manstein was convicted and sentenced to 18 years. Later...
...voyage from Abadan, bringing to Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...
They crossed a length in front of the Orange and Black shell, which in turn heat out Yale by a dock length...
...crash. "I saw flashes of lightning as the plane approached the airport . . . I remember the plane banking to the left . . . I came to in the water. I was under the water. I pushed myself to the top. I called out for help. They came and took me to the dock. When I arrived at the hospital I couldn't move my arms, and the bones were sticking...
Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...