Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days awaiting an important passenger: Count Jacques Juge de Bernonville, 50. A wartime collaborator, he had been sentenced to death in France for "violence, treason, arson and looting." As soon as Canada handed him over, L'Aventure would rush him home. But L'Aventure would not sail right away. De Bernonville was in the middle of a political row between Quebec nationalists and the federal government...
...Belgian ship Scaldis was due to sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...
...Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade for the evening...
...Reserve. Last week, ready to sail home, the students reported on the land they had seen. Their favorite American: Eisenhower; their favorite state: Colorado. They had asked innumerable and pointed questions about Negro problems in the South, about isolationism in the Midwest. When one Midwesterner asked about the Marshall Plan, a French girl replied: "I do not wish to offend, but to properly discuss the Marshall Plan one should not eat for two days before...
...have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy ladders. No use. They showed him tail prints in the ventilators. No use. When the Pobeda threatened to sail on, the health inspector yelled to a Coast Guard cutter: "Shoot to sink if she moves fore...