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...message could not have been less triumphant: Berlinguer acknowledged what he called an "appreciable variation with respect to our exceptional advances of 1976." When someone dutifully unfurled the red hammer-and-sickle flag from the balcony, a disgusted voice piped up loudly from the crowd: "Leave it at half-mast...
...with a year's haul of gold and silver. Heading up the Bahama Channel toward Florida, it sailed into a hurricane that sank several of the ships in its fleet. The Concepción nearly capsized, but a desperate crew righted her by chopping off chunks of mast and rigging. Her gunpowder soaked, the ship was defenseless against pirates, so the admiral in command veered south for Puerto Rico, hoping to stash the treasure there until the Concepción could be repaired and restocked...
...wing and propeller tips of aircraft, St. Elmo's fire occurs when strong electrical fields are created in the atmosphere. If atmospheric voltage rises high enough, as under a thunderhead, the electrical resistance of the air breaks down and electrons flow from such pointed objects as a ship's mast, agitating nearby air molecules to produce a strong coronal light...
Somewhere off Pearl Harbor, the crew of the high-speed Pegasus put their ship through its paces so that Halstead, hovering in a helicopter, could get a glimpse of the Navy of the future. To photograph one of the new Spruance destroyers, Halstead was hoisted up a 150-ft. mast by crane and perched on a 16-in.-wide platform. To capture the magnitude of the Lexington, he was taken in a small boat across the bow of the mighty ship so that he could shoot up at the great gray mass, a view akin to the cover painting...
...Rather than join the exodus of conspiring nobles, he conjured up his own plot: a voyage to America. "What's the use of emigrating from France? I'm emigrating from the world," he declared. Another storm followed him to sea; he had himself lashed to the mast and shouted his delight to the elements. His fellow passengers thought him mad-and they may have been right...