Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Cape Horn, where González ran into stormy weekend weather, it is just three days' sail to the Graham Land outpost that the Chileans belligerently call Port Sovereignty. There this week, properly furred and parkaed, González is scheduled to go ashore, inspect the little garrison, and rechristen the base Camp Bernardo O'Higgins (after the hero of Chile's War of Independence). That would be his answer to the British, who this week sent the cruiser Nigeria steaming toward the disputed waters...
...another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
Leopold, exiled King of the Belgians, prepared to sail from Lisbon for Cuba as the Belgian Parliament approached the task of deciding whether to take him back or not. He let it be known that he was just taking a little vacation. He might just possibly look...
...Paris, Miss Paris of 1947 - a leggy actress named Kay Trevil - declared that Americans had "more character" than Frenchmen, said she would sail for the U.S. this week to marry the credit manager of a clothing store in Columbus, Ohio...
Skiers are likely to sail with empty wallets for the Olympic games in St. Moritz, unless the Harvard Ski Club and other winter sport fanciers can raise sufficient money to pay travel expenses for the Americans who will wear the Red, White, and Blue in Switzerland this winter...