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Critics of the mission who have complained that the Soyuz spacecraft is too "primitive" to bother docking with should realize that if it weren't for the launching of that spacecraft, we would not be launching an Apollo for any reason. The Soyuz program, however primitive it may be, is still advancing steadily. By contrast, Apollo and Skylab are dead. When viewed in this light, it is actually the Soviets who are condescending to dock with us. Soyuz is just coming into its own, while Apollo is putting on its encore performance...
...output. They have arbitrarily called strikes and in the fanatic saneamento (literally, "cleaning up") campaign, have purged from their plants all those accused of the undefined crime of "economic sabotage." Managers have been so harassed that many have abandoned their companies. Laborers at Lisnave, Europe's largest dry dock, have reduced work hours so much that 50% has been added to the lay-up time for ships. The nationalization of all the country's banks, insurance companies and half of its industries has brought foreign investment to a halt, even though foreign assets have been exempted. Half...
...fruitless days -at a daily wage of $100-the anglers came up with unsuitable catches. Frantic, the film company sent to Florida, and a 13-ft. tiger shark was flown up, packed in ice like a gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such a powerful stench in the hot sun that it quickly lost much of its curiosity value. Some townsfolk reciprocated later by depositing on Canuck and Brown's doorstep the moldering carcasses of sharks from local waters...
However, since 1962, when Harvard crew coach Harry Parker arrived on the dock of Newell Boat House that atmosphere and tradition has failed to hold on the water. Saturday afternoon, in New London, Conn., was a case in point. Parker's varsity eight flexed its cars shortly into the start of the 110th Harvard-Yale race and cruised up the Thames River, leaving the hapless Elis splashing it out some 11 lengths behind in a furious wake...
...most depressing moment came when we were taken into Kompong Som. I looked up and saw all those armed people on the dock and I thought, this is it, the old North Viet Nam prison stunt. I figured they'd march us down the street and into some jail and nobody would hear from us for years...