Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crashing a presidential party for foreign diplomats aboard the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. As both official craft cruised out into the middle of the Potomac, Lyndon kidded Jack about "stowing away," then piped him aboard a power launch that put him in the right boat...
...reconnaissance plane dipped its wings in salute. On the pier a crowd of 20,000 cheered wildly, a band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, and the town's scarlet-robed mayor waited to extend official greetings. Said Robert N. Manry, 47, as he stepped from the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic nonstop: "I'm flabbergasted...
...that might otherwise have run him down in the dark. Even so, he said, "ever so often some great steamer would come bearing down." On several occasions, he was washed overboard in heavy seas; each time he hauled himself back aboard by a lifeline that tethered him to the boat or by grabbing the boat's rigging. Worst of all were his hallucinations, the result probably of taking too many benzedrine pep pills. Once he imagined that a "monster" had invaded the boat's cabin and thrown his eleven-year-old son overboard...
...print appeared in the Press even before the film clips went on the air. Dismayed as it is by its rival's coup, the Plain Dealer is still pushing ahead with plans for covering Manry's arrival, and has arranged to send his family out in a boat to meet him. Trouble is, by week's end he had not been sighted for a few days; even the R.A.F. had not spotted him in heavy...
...Gold Cup means to powerboat racing roughly the same thing that the Indianapolis 500 does to auto racing. The boats are the biggest, fastest and trickiest to handle; powered by souped up 2,000-h.p. World War II aircraft engines, they scream along at speeds up to 180 m.p.h., tossing huge rooster tails of spray 40 ft. high in their wakes. The crowds are the biggest-300,000 or more. And the prize is the richest-$10,500, plus a new car to the winner. At last week's 58th annual running of the race on Seattle...