Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clapped on a rakish red tarn o' shanter (a gift from Daughter Lynda) and invited reporters to the nearby shores of Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. There he climbed into his 310-h.p. speedboat and drove it in wide, churning circles, occasionally revving the engine so high that the boat all but sat on its stern. Next day he entertained 150 members of the Texas Explorers Club, got into his white Lincoln convertible and exuberantly led a tour of the land around the L.B.J. Ranch. Every day he walked between two and four miles. When...
...agreement, according to Washington, will do away entirely with the dangerous small-boat traffic from the port of Camarioca. Instead, the U.S. will set up an airlift of at least two flights a day-six days a week-between Miami and Varadero 70 miles east of Havana. The flights will carry 65 refugees each, or from 3,000 to 4,000 a month, and begin about ten days after the official announcement. More than 150,000 Cubans are expected to sign up. Immediate relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave...
...resulting scramble was like Dunkirk in miniature. Despite ten-foot waves in the Straits, Castro officials were climbing all over the boatmen, prodding them on their way. "I told them my boat just couldn't make it," reported one exile, "but they said, 'You have the green light-go.' " Out on the open sea, the exile's cabin cruiser began taking water; a U.S. Coast Guard cutter hovering near by had to rescue everyone aboard. In all, the Coast Guard picked up more than 100 Cubans from a dozen boats swamped by the rough seas...
...Soviet sub prowling territorial waters off Greenland. The captain can scarcely restrain his thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former German U-boat commander (Eric Portman) on advisory duty, and by a Negro reporter-photographer (Sidney Poitier). The man to watch, though, is a jumpy young officer (James MacArthur) with all that ASROC firepower at his fingertips...
Princeton captured the Cup, amassing 61 points in five races over the 6 1/2-mile Chesapeake Bay course. The Crimson boat also placed below Navy, Rhode Island, and Columbia, but in turn left Yale, Dartmouth, and Penn in its wake...