Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predawn bit of derring-do, Communist frogmen swam down the Perfume and neatly dropped the center span of the last remaining bridge over the river, despite the fact that the allies held both bridgeheads. Boats thus became the main means of evacuation and supply, and each boat ran a gauntlet of NVA sniper fire. But at week's end the NVA pockets of resistance were slowly shrinking, and all of the city except a part of the Citadel had been seized by the allies...
...minister. Juan Carlos also sees Franco from time to time, and the Spanish press is sometimes allowed to portray him as a popular hero. An avid sportsman, the Prince expects to be a member of Spain's Olympic sailing team at the helm of his own Dragon class boat...
...with a deep V hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than any other type of boat. At the current ten-day National Boat Show in Manhattan's Coliseum, they are rivaling glamour yachts such as the $80,250 Hatteras triple-cabin cruiser, the most expensive boat in the show, for attention...
Fore & Aft Patios. Nashville's Nauta-Line, largest manufacturer in the field, has quadrupled production of its 33-ft. and 43-ft. houseboats in the past 18 months, is now making 2,000 houseboats a year. At the River Queen Boat Works in Gary, Ind., sales have increased 100% in the past two years. Now Chris-Craft, the nation's largest cruiser manufacturer, has just swallowed its pride after three years of intensive market research and gone into houseboats with a 33-footer that costs $9,500, sleeps six, does up to 40 m.p.h...
...order. Although he has taken time out to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1960 and to haunt television panels as a sort of sexy Schlesinger or political Capote, he has always been primarily a working novelist (Julian), playwright (Visit to a Small Planet), and critic (Rocking the Boat...