Word: bermudas
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...sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre, owned and skippered by a shrewd, affable, literary-minded salt named Carleton Mitchell...
...lines are far from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage of the long and lean. Though Finisterre finished 31st in the Bermuda fleet, her handicap of 24 hr. 41 min. gave her victory...
...water may be the turquoise Mediterranean, an ice-skimmed quarry in Vermont, the translucent waters off Bermuda, the Pacific rolling in majestic rhythm toward the shores of San Diego. Around the world and across the nation, swimmers are sinking beneath the surface to fly like angels through an alien realm. This fascinating new playground, alive with beauty and tanged with danger, belongs to the skindiver...
...situation is critical. Japanese industrialists have developed the Hicoupet Mark III sports car. U.S. price: $49.95. Obviously, Detroit will soon be just a swallowed Miltown. The hero pulls his thumb out of his mouth, strips to his Bermuda shorts, and shouts: "This is a job for Business Man!" He is, of course, "faster than a speeding ticker tape, more powerful than a goon squad, able to leap loopholes in a single bound." He does all this on the stage of a Chicago coffeehouse-nightclub called the Second City...
...argues, has left too many top executives concerned only with profit-and-loss figures to the detriment of employee relations. Jaspan acknowledges that many thefts are hard to eliminate because of employees' money difficulties or personality problems (e.g., the unattractive sales clerk who stole for a trip to Bermuda to find romance). But he also points to the need for management to pay higher wages in some cases, make sure that an employee gets recognition of some sort for faithful service. Jaspan cites the case of an employee in a Southern hardware store who was making $150 per week...