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Baruna was a boat to warm an old salt's heart. She liked it rough, with seas kicking up and a breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...
...BERMUDA: Harvard Club of Bermuda (inactive): Donald Holbrook '20, 111 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts...
Peach trees and flowering shrubs bloomed across Oklahoma last week. Out on the panhandle, Bermuda grass was turning from winter-brown to green. Beef cattle moved on to the fattening ranges of the Osage. In California, sunbathers headed for the long Pacific beaches. In Manhattan, city hicks swarmed into Madison Square Garden for the circus...
...example, Northwest Airlines, Inc., which lost $1,141,340, had put a lot into developing its short route via Alaska to Japan, expected a big boost in traffic soon. Colonial Airlines, Inc. attributed much of its deficit ($1,074,341) to "developmental expenses" on its new Bermuda run. American Airlines spent $30,926,000 for new flight equipment, will have replaced all of its fleet of older planes with more efficient craft by year...