Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here is the Cuban invasion force setting sail for the Bay of Pigs, with the boats "tinted by the red light of the dying sun." Here is Kennedy in Vienna, annoyed by Nikita Khrushchev's description of the Soviet Union as a young nation and the U.S. as an old one, and replying, "If you'll look across the table, you'll see that we're not so old." Here, in a less weighty moment, is Kennedy at his children's bedtime, inventing stories about "Caroline hunting with the Orange County hounds and winning...
Running Around. "I think we are better in business than men," says Supapan Mejudhon, 21, who helps her mother run a flourishing 49-boat ferry fleet on the bustling Chao Phraya River. "They like to sit at a desk and do routine jobs, while we like to run around." Mrs. Bessie Punyanitya Samargachan, 37, has expanded her Boon Vanit Travel Agency from a tiny concern with one part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi...
...toward reunification is to revitalize the incipient desire for goods and services behind the rusting Iron Curtain. It was with Bonn's tacit approval that Krupp General Manager Berthold Beitz began reconnoitering Eastern Europe in 1959. Beitz has since signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled since 1955 to more than $500 million a year. West German trade missions are active in Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland...
Dennis says he rarely leaves his hotel room while traveling, except to go off on expeditions in his boat. He and his mother talked about his proposed sail-fishing expedition to Florida next week. With expansive gestures, reclining in an imaginary deck chair, feet propped against an imaginary bow, he showed us how he reels in "marlin bigger than I am." The other Beach Boys have other preoccupations. "Carl spends money, Brian writes songs, and I just like speed and competition," Dennis says. "I don't like Europe and I don't like the Orient. I like Redondo Beach...
Died. Rear Admiral Allen Phillip Calvert, 64, World War II commander of the PT-boat flotilla in which President Kennedy skippered the PT 109, for which he got the Distinguished Service Medal, later Deputy Chief of General MacArthur's planning staff; of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif...