European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Demise of the ducklings by John c Eagan fran Kun Roosevelt called them ugly to German submariners who torpedoed them they were kaisers creeping cof but to the thousands of men who tailed on them they were Liberty the Backbone of americas Mas Sive sea Force that helped crush the Nad and japanese War machines in the in an incredible surge of National seduced Between 1m1 and tits in u Ameri can shipyards he largest number of ships Ever built from a single Only one authentic Liberty remains the Jere Obrien and Oldt irm sailors we working to have the relic of bygone Era preserved As a the now Rusty with peeling paint and a nest ing spot for anchors 40 in dec Northeast of san Francisco among 140 ships in the Sutsun Bay Mothball Sto nay not took like w Ikei in any food Tali John tto maritime Almutt Notts Fleet Speruta Jeat m Teaman called m three As chid All of that rat is frs so free   and paint Job and shed look As food As among the debris on a recent visit to the old pot linger came across the engineers log that told of the Briens last which ended at Btl cat on Otherl Han the is Thomas Patterson regional director for the maritime whose command included the Suisun estimates it would Cost about to get the Obrien cleaned sealed and moored permanently fur a former merchant Marine Captain who began is sea career As a Cadet aboard a said efforts Are being made to have the Obrien declared an historic object the tint step in moving toward the Public relic of a bygone Era the last Liberty doily Magazine museum like Heary us uber Lei were classics of Law Cert Hundred of thousands of men and women workers in in 32 mates built the con ponets which headed for speedy Assembly it shipyards on the East and West Many were built by the Henry Kaiser Industrial and thai combined with their slow i knot Speed accounted for their German the first of the Breed we the Patrick launched months before the japanese attack on Peart theft were to Many of Tern that the names sometimes seemed Wen u the stage door canteen named in Honor of a new York recreation club or serv i Bertles carried Gas and bombs to battlefields around the world in the to Korea in the 8k and Vietnam in the More than to liberties Sank from storms or enemy Many with heavy loss of As Hospital they brought the wounded some were sunk deliberately to provide Harbor breakwater on the invasion beaches of for More thu it Yean Ikey were the Back of the worlds Trunp learner merchant finally they were too and expensive to Many were Cut up for others were sunk deliberately to create artificial Ocean reefs to improve fishing in the Gulf and the few Otter remaining liberties were modified Tor a variety of ranging from Oil tankers to radar picket duty of the coastline As part of the Early warning system against air or missile one of the most popular never made on the was to reinforce the ship with a steel band because of a dangerous and sometimes tragic tendency to break apart during that was because the to Speed their were welded and not riveted the teenage Puzzle professor by Israel Shenker new York times when he scanned faculty biographies in the new schools bulletin for next Michael Miller of pleased to see his As he recalled it was shocking to find two faculty Mem Bers at the new York school without advanced degrees Michael Milter and the woman who teaches belly danc since the belly dancer has for years been moving in pedagogical Michael Miter is really in a class of to he is a High school and he has just celebrated his Isufi birthday classmates in the 10th Grade at the collegiate school now look at their Friend with his grandmother Calls him Herr Michaels course is s5sm beyond crossword Puz a roller coaster that eaves the comfortable stability of classical crosswords and zooms off into the Cloud land of intricately challenging word such As Dia and Many imported course includes t of 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be fun to Leach and that the new where adult courses Are not All would be the place to Leach he called the school and was invited to Send a resume and Back came a letter suggesting an Ubea be other prospective teachers were there was this lady who wanted to Leach Leonardo a and one who was going to teach and Craft Michael they asked me what i wanted to and i they the Plato lady didst make 1 went in and talked to Reuben he what is your job1 when i told him 1 was a Stu Bent he asked me what 1 and i said 1 was in High he said he admired my but be want sure about the code Cucto you w us Phi when he read the his Mother was on the Nodi tvs Row us share Ana we Ieta fhe drat Sadat a listen ago Rudolf Serkland Enteon the program a palindrome of of Star Well us Down at table and say Star a Stab e shout Ora at least 12 students must pay is for the to betau idd one night a week or it will be i chalet leaching he does not yet have a social Secu Rity number for taxes is set at january 1978 Puzzle 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