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Nufeld expressed no concern about State Department reprisals because the Supreme Court ruled the ban on Cuban travel unconstitutional. However, he said that since Mexico will not admit the students when they return from Cuba, they will probably sail to Montreal, Canada...
...before the Navy court of inquiry in Coronado, Calif., last week, Rear Admiral George L. Cassell, former assistant chief of staff for Pacific Fleet Operations, said that the Navy launched its rescue mission immediately after the capture. Two U.S. Navy destroyers, U.S.S. Truxton and U.S.S. Higbee, were ordered to sail to Wonsan. Under heavy air cover and backed up by a U.S. ultimatum to the North Koreans, Higbee was to dash into Wonsan harbor and escort Pueblo to safety. However, noted Cassell, the plan was vetoed by "higher authority...
...then 31, spent $18,000 for a new fiber glass Seawind sailboat that is advertised by the Allied Boat Co. of Catskill, N.Y., as capable of "crossing an ocean if you will." After a year of preparation, Eddy decided he was ready to do just that. So he set sail in the wake of Joshua Slocum, the retired trading-ship captain who took off from Boston in a 37-ft. converted oyster boat back in 1895 and returned three years later as the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehanded...
...Spice of Danger. The pleasures of such a trip were well described by British Writer Eric Hiscock in Cruising Under Sail. He wrote of "the spice that a suggestion of danger lends; the satisfaction of working the winds and tides to the best advantage; the feeling of achievement when a strange coast or harbor has been reached under sail; and the never-ending fascination of handling and looking after a seaworthy yacht and her gear...
...sequence of absurdist hilarity, the nation's council of generals begins bidding at 2,000 crowns and goes to 1,000,000 in a vain effort to buy Waltz's infernal machine. During the negotiations, these senile clowns play with toy automobiles and sail paper airplanes at one another and into the audience...