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There was space, lots of space, in the starry skies above, but Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 39, discovered that the dawn comes up with a thundering herd in Bermuda. Buzzing along on one of those mid-ocean motor bikes at 5:30 a.m. to the U.S. Navy base where he was temporarily stationed for some underwater training, Carpenter met two cars passing on a narrow road, and when he sheered aside to avoid them, bounced into a doral wall just the way the tourists do. Toll: a compound fracture of the left arm that may take surgery for a proper...
...currents, but to his surprise they were tossed by unseen waves. "Instead of remaining at a constant level," he says, "they bobbed incessantly in regular up-and-down swings of about ten feet." As the oceanographers looked farther, they also found submarine surges deep in the Atlantic east of Bermuda and as far south as the equator. All of them moved only fractions of a mile per hour...
...with a furlong-and-a-half to go. The $149,730 victory brought Santa's winnings to $376,423 this year-and meant a present of $140,000 to each of 24 lucky ticket holders in the worldwide Irish Sweepstakes lottery. >Milton Ernstof's Burgoo: the Newport-Bermuda yacht race, over 142 of the world's fastest racing yachts-biggest field in the event's 58-year history. A Class E, 38-ft. fiber-glass yawl, one of the smallest boats in the race, Burgoo proved to be just right for the light, fluffy breezes that...
Having started last, Salinger is running hardest of all. At first, people had trouble taking him seriously. He had, after all, once taken a fully clad dip in Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill pool, and he was always doing things like holding press conferences in Bermuda shorts or showing up for tennis at the Newport Casino clothed in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and powder blue instead of the traditional white. Even when he quit gagging, his audience sometimes kept on laughing. Once, after his usual quota of jokes, he told his listeners that he wanted to discuss education...
What wears purple Bermuda shorts, walks like a man, hits like a man, and occasionally loses its temper like a man? A lady golf...