Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MAURICE and MARALYN BAILEY...
...March 4, 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had their breakfast interrupted by sperm whale, which rammed their twin-keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies...
...whom Cabot can attempt to set up his experimental "marriage." When Harvard announced its intention to solicit outside managers in the fall, over 160 investment firms from all over the country expressed interest in getting a piece of Harvard's action. At the time, Putnam named George Sigular, James Bailey, and Paul Kuklinski, an outside consultant, to interview and narrow down the list of possible outside managers...
From Harvard, senior Mike Bernick came in 22 minutes and nine seconds after the hour of three o'clock. Harvey Inashima, another senior, pulled in with a 3:14:07, and Tom McElligott notched unofficially a four-hour mark. James Bailey, a tutor in Eliot House, pulled into the Pru after roughly three hours and 28 minutes...
After presiding over the Senate for four years as Vice President, Hubert Humphrey took on a real circus. Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey variety. In red sequined coat and black stovepipe hat ("I won't throw it into the ring, and that's the first time I've ever said that"), Senator Humphrey stepped into the spotlight before a packed audience of all ages at the Washington, D.C., armory. By longstanding tradition, the opening was billed as Congressional Night at the Circus. Seldom at a loss for words, Humphrey kept up an authentic ringmaster's patter...