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...Mendelian dominant pattern; some of Mrs. Ribicoff's cousins have it, but her own two children apparently do not. In this disorder, the blood itself is normal. But in some parts of the body, there are abnormal swellings of the ends of minute arteries and veins. These "end-vessel swellings" (telangiectases) burst and bleed...
...Master of This Vessel, Griffin...
Lost Sale. Two weeks ago. Harris seized a patrol boat that had been sailed to the U.S. by three defecting Castro navymen. By last week he had a buyer ready to pay $55,000 for the vessel-when the U.S. State Department suddenly announced that the boat was protected by diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th...
Down the long sweep of the Grand Canal came the gondola, a slender vessel reminiscent of older, statelier times. But there was something that looked like a propeller shaft projecting from the craft's bottom; the gondolier had abandoned his classic, nonchalant stand at the stern to crouch at the center; and the boat emitted wild gusts of fumes and roars that shook the lagoon city into outrage...
...absolutely wanted to be the first one to reach the cosmic barriers. Authorization was given him through I don't know whose influence in the Soviet government, and he followed training courses for only a few months before his attempt . . . He took the risk himself. The cosmic vessel bearing Sergei Ilyushin went three times around the world. He returned to earth, but as a completely shattered and unbalanced man.'' Ilyushin had made the trip three days before Yuri, said Bobrowski. and he was now "absolutely unconscious in a Moscow hospital." Bobrowski's account jibed in many...