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...fiber-glass yawl, one of the smallest boats in the race, Burgoo proved to be just right for the light, fluffy breezes that turned the 635-mile ocean race into an uneventful weekend cruise. Short-tacking furiously for the last 20 miles, Burgoo crossed the finish line in 109th position-almost 20 hrs. behind the scratch boat, Cornelius Bruynzeel's 73-ft. Stormvogel-still won by 30 min. on corrected time...
...youngest general on active duty in the U.S. armed forces is Command Pilot Robert F. McDermott, 41. He was 109th in his West Point Class of 409 in 1943, won the Bronze Star and Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters flying a P-38 with the Ninth Air Force in World War II, graduated from Harvard Business School in 1950. Not long ago he belonged to that tiny covey of airmen who might some day soar to Chief of Staff. So when he began a teaching stint at the new Air Force Academy and did well enough...
...Difference. Both sides were waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold or reject the U.S. petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction suspending the strike for 80 days. But the McDonald v. industry exchange on the strike's 109th day revealed a crevasse too wide to be bridged by Taft-Hartley injunctions, or even by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's summons for both sides to report to Washington this week for talks...
...service academies last week it was the Army's 161st graduation, the Navy's 109th, the Coast Guard's 73rd, the Air Force's first (TIME. June 1)-and each in its way was unlike any in memory. Items...
...ceremony helped publicize the Pudding's forthcoming 109th annual production, On the Rocks. In previous years, the award has gone to Mamie Eisenhower and Debbie Reynolds, among others...