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...Russian note was stiff. One of their tankers was missing, and the U.S. Navy must have it. The Russian story was that the 8,840-ton Soviet tanker Tuapse was stopped one morning last week in the predawn hours 125 miles south of Formosa by a "destroyer type" vessel. The captain just had time to get off a message reporting this when radio contact...
...already sent destroyers to scour the seas off Guatemala, shadowing and photographing ships and challenging them for identification. Only vessel so far stopped (by a comic misunderstanding) was the United Fruit Co.'s banana-freighter Choluteca...
Citation: "Deviser of the nuclear reactor that led to the first undersea vessel powered by nuclear energy, you have enabled men for the first time to go down into the sea in ships wholly independent of the atmosphere...
Soon afterward, assuring his people that the World Bank's Black would pay them a cool 10% on all loans, the President pocketed the money and slipped off to Antwerp to buy a $60,000 yacht. Re-christened the President Robert, the vessel was stocked with 1,068 bottles of vintage liquors, some 200,000 cigarettes, a supply of fine cigars and other necessities for gracious living on a long voyage. Then, on July 18, 1951, loaded with its complement of happy internationalists, each equipped with passport and currency bearing the signature of President Robert, it set sail, ostensibly...
...shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Mrs. Jean McCarthy, wife of Wisconsin's junior Senator, swung heftily with both arms, smashed a bottle of champagne across the bow of a new Navy vessel, the 385-ft. LST 1170. Joe McCarthy, as silent as he has been at any event in years, glowed and said: "It's Jean...