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...there was even a baseball team at Mare Island, Calif., where Hank was awaiting shipment to the Pacific. But the easy life came to an abrupt halt. "One morning," says Hank, "this sergeant came up to me and said, 'Why don't you volunteer for the Raider battalion?' I said okay. But the first thing they told me was, 'You've got to swim a mile with a full pack on your back.' I said, 'Hell, I can't even swim,' and they turned me down. I told the sergeant what...
...only withholds help from the raiders, but actively discourages them. Washington thinks that the raids do Castro no real harm, and in fact, encourage the Russians to keep their troops in Cuba. Last week, acting on information provided by the U.S., British authorities in the Bahamas seized a 35-ft. raider boat named Violynn III. The crew of 17 had been bound on a mission to land arms on the coast of Cuba; then they intended to seek out a Russian tanker and attack it with 20-mm. incendiary and explosive shells...
Coach Cooney Welland's skaters punctuated their defensive lapses and sloppy passing with two quick goals early in the first period. Billy Lamarche, all by himself in front of the Raider nets, scored on Barry Treadwell's pass...
...conference business early. During the 16th century, under Reformer John Calvin, Geneva was the Protestant Rome. In 1872 Geneva's city hall was the headquarters of a five-man commission that arbitrated a dispute between Britain and the U.S. over the damages caused by the British-built Confederate raider Alabama. The luckless League of Nations was established in Geneva in 1920. After the League was erased by World War II, the United Nations took over the vast Palais des Nations as its European base...
...played with a vengeance at New York's ailing Fairbanks Whitney Corp.-and the tune that calls the winner often sounds like a dirge. First there was Financier Leopold Silberstein, who began building the company in 1951 with grandiose plans for its future. Then there was Corporate Raider Alfons Landa, who after a proxy battle forced out Silberstein in 1958. Landa brought with him a former publicity man and legman for Drew Pearson named David Karr, who deftly worked his way into the president's chair when Landa vacated it in 1959. Karr then moved himself...