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...first H-bomb, "Mike," on a University of California seismograph. Teller writes: "The room was completely dark except for the tiny luminous spot that the pencil of light threw on the photographic paper . . . Soon the luminous point gave me the feeling of being aboard a gently and irregularly moving vessel, so I braced a pencil on a piece of the apparatus and held it close to the luminous point . . . About a quarter of an hour was required for the shock to travel, deep under the Pacific basin, to the California coast. I waited with little patience . . . At last . . . the luminous...
...Shank & Three Trombones (Pacific Jazz LP). Further adventures of West Coast jazzmen in their new instrumental colors. This one features plush sounds that should please even the cats who do not quite dig Saxophonist Shank. Titles: Valve in Head, Cool Fool, Wailing Vessel...
...with one companion, sailed across the Atlantic in the 31-ft. yawl Uldra. For six years he adventured around the world, and stopped barely long enough to get married: his honeymoon (with the former Elizabeth Ann Wellington of Manhattan) was spent on a 110-ft. vessel sailing from San Francisco to Tahiti. Puleston took time out to write a sensitive travel book, Blue Water Vagabond (Doubleday) , and to do a few bird paintings - most of which he gave away as presents. He was surprised when friends asked to buy them...
Three months ago, with the help of a local British fisherman, a Polish fishing vessel, apparently in trouble, was guided into the port of Whitby. In incomprehensible Polish and ragged German, seven members of the Polish crew managed to explain that they had locked their captain in the lavatory, the political officer in his cabin, and had headed for Britain to seek asylum from Red rule...
...musty Bow Street court, crowded with Polish exiles, Shawcross in effect put the Polish government itself on trial. Said he: "These men are charged with what amounts to mutiny ... It might have been revolt on the high seas, but it was political revolt against political tyranny on a vessel being run by a political officer with more powers than the captain." He introduced as evidence a persuader found in the political officer's cabin-a spring-handled bludgeon. "It seems a curious form of political argument," said Shawcross dryly...