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...meringue to the beat of native drums, and shouted "Down with Lescot-le tyran!" After four days of paralyzing strikes, and fighting in which at least 14 had been killed, the Army had gone over to the revolution and Haiti had a new Government. On the hill overlooking the sail-flecked harbor, the handsome residence of President Elie Lescot lay empty. The President had fled the country. (Early this week he deplaned in Miami...
...Some 26,000 men of the Government's U.S.-trained New Sixth Army prepared to sail aboard U.S. naval transports for Manchurian ports...
...boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly up to ten, then puts his reel in gear and hauls, back to set the hook...
...were all the other topmost admirals out of step with him? Admiral Turner considered himself the chief adviser of Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations. But "Betty" Stark, in mid-October 1941, had written to Kimmel: "I do not believe that the Japs are going to sail into us." Reminded of that letter, Kelly Turner was unperturbed. Said he: "I was very astonished when I first saw that." He also volunteered the information that Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, then head of Intelligence, had said on Dec. 6, 1941, that he did not believe Japan would attack...
...Littles lived near Manhattan's Central Park, where sailboat enthusiasts like to sail their miniature craft. In one of the headiest competitions since the America's Cup races, Stuart sailed the Wasp to victory...