After a Month on the Water, All She Wants Is a Bath

Jane Weber of Canada arrived in Plymouth, England, looking tired and longing for a bath. And why not? She had just completed a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean aboard her 43-foot yacht Tilley Endurable. Weber, who was given a rousing welcome at Plymouth’s Millbay Marina, started her 2,700-mile journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 29, and she becomes the first Canadian woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic. She said that despite a storm, which damaged her mono-hull cutter, she enjoyed the challenging voyage. “The storm damaged my mainsail and over 2 foot of water flooded the cabin,” Weber, 44, said. “It completely knocked out my computers and damaged my batteries . . . . I am looking forward to having a bath. I have just done over several thousand miles and feel I deserve it.”

--The gun that Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme pointed at President Gerald R. Ford on Sept. 5, 1975, in Sacramento has been donated to the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. “We want all the possible documentation of President Ford’s Administration, the good and the bad,” curator James Kratsas said. “Certainly, this is part of the bad aspect of it.” Kratsas had sought the .45-caliber Colt semiautomatic pistol after he learned that the U.S. marshal’s office in Sacramento planned to destroy it--as is the custom with most seized firearms. Kratsas said there are no immediate plans to put the gun on display. Fromme, then 26, was convicted of attempted murder and is serving a life sentence.

--Nicholas Daniloff knows something about international affairs--especially the kind involving the Soviet Union. The former Moscow correspondent for U.S. News & World Report was imprisoned three years ago in the Soviet Union on espionage charges but was later freed after a deal was made in which Daniloff and a Soviet official, arrested earlier by the FBI, were released. For now, Daniloff is living in Montpelier, Vt., helping to arrange visits of people from Karelia, a Soviet region that Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin visited last year. Kunin had sought Daniloff’s help in her efforts to have Karelia officially become Vermont’s sister state. “I have a gripe with the KGB, but I don’t have a gripe with the Soviet Union,” Daniloff said.