Putnam (DD 757) - Naval Cruise Book

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if 1 Mmm? The splendid Renais- sance painting and sculp- ture, the timeless archi- tecture - surely Rome is an achievement of which Man may be proud! Yet nowhere are beauty and ugliness more sharply con- trasted than in modern Italy. Beneath the statues are filth and squalorg beg- '4 : fi fi 0' 1 .,.............. - ' .:.,1.a.a5,,1,'1.IS3Tu xi-all . , . 'LJ J - I JMS XX gars and urchins wander among the parks and villas. But if the smell of Death is in the air, it is over- powered by the breath of Life - gusty, earthy, and enchanting! --H... - 2 I

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, s 'X RED SEA PORT SAID Suzi CANAL Am I I I I I I I I I The desert has nothing I I 1 to offer. Neither does Aden, 5 the fueling station where ' the desert and mountains of Arabia meet' the sea. The heat is fierceg the dryness parches I x the throat. The dullness of the I S 1 Suez Canal transit broken only I Q as intermittently by signs of life 5 ' I on the banks: a soldier on a A I, ' I camel, a sleepy village built of ' - X rp mud bricks, or a British fort PX ringed with barbed wire-grim re- I HMT ll minder of the Canal Zone's martial I R N',f:Q'.f law. Q 1 . 1 'l' 1 - - ss ' - , . Q f 5 . t Q Q A I Q Q. Q. 1 1