Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MORE and more U.S. families are joining a leisure-time brotherhood of the sea. See SPORT, Boat Fever...
...sweltering Cairo faded into the distance, a troupe of clowns on the old river boat began cavorting on the top deck before the packed crowds of Egyptians escaping the city. Below decks in the 200-ton Dandara were hundreds more on holiday-government agricultural experts and their families, who had chartered the boat for the day, bound for the picnic grounds at the Nile Delta Barrage...
Suddenly the overcrowded boat sprang a hull leak, and a torrent of water gushed through. The Dandara came to a halt in midriver. Crewmen managed to transfer 50 passengers to a nearby barge, then desperately steered for shore. But near the bank, the panicking crowd rushed to the shoreside rails. Under the sudden weight, the Dandara slowly tipped onto its side...
After the first six races on Saturday, the Crimson stood in second place, nine points behind M.I.T. In Sunday's first contest, Hanson Robbins skippered his boat to a second-place finish in division A, while Bill Saltonstall came in first in the B division. M.I.T., meanwhile, could do no better than a third and a ninth and fell into a tie with the varsity...
Robbins skillfully guided his boat home in front, and Saltonstall took fourth. The M.I.T. squad cracked completely, with a seventh and a ninth, and B.U. was unable to threaten seriously...