Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the fighting erupted, U.S. officialdom in the Middle East carried out a mini-exodus worthy of a latter-day Moses. In the face of the most widespread and violent anti-American outbursts in history, more than 20,000 U.S. civilians fled the area by cab and cattle boat, cruise ship and jetliner. About 35,000 Americans-mostly oil-company employees, military personnel and foreign service officers-remained behind, but U.S. consulates and embassies were ready to evacuate them as well should Arab hysteria continue to rise...
...construction of as many as six successors to Savannah. Meanwhile, he believes, she should be kept in commission. Her backers argue that scrapping Savannah could set back development of a nuclear merchant fleet by five to ten years. "It was a long time between Robert Fulton's steam boat and operating steamships," says a U.S. maritime official. "Then the British used steam for years while we stuck to sails-and we never did catch up with their head start...
...Israeli side, coverage was far less fettered. Few of the 300 foreign correspondents who flooded into the country had trouble getting to one of the fronts in some military vehicle- helicopter, half-track or torpedo boat. Oth ers were shuttled to battle sites in a pair of tourist buses, which had a habit of getting lost in the desert. Israeli information officers joked with reporters, censored their copy perfunctorily, and often leaked news before it was officially released...
...picked until the final trials in August. So Mosbacher's mistake might soon be forgotten-were it not for the possibility that the loss could be the only one Intrepid will ever suffer. Skeptics who considered how Architect Olin Stephens could improve his design for Constellation-the boat that beat Eagle in the 1964 U.S. trials, then went on to wipe up Britain's Sovereign in four straight races-got their answer when Intrepid whipped Connie three times in a row by ever bigger margins: 50 sec., 1 min. 44 sec., 2 min. 11 sec. In two rematches...
What saves Caprice from utter extinction is that the film wisely dabbles in self-mockery: the heroine's deceased father, shown in a framed photograph, is Arthur Godfrey-a reminder of the role he played opposite her in The Glass Bottom Boat. But such inside jokery is about the limit of Caprice's caprice. The rest of the time it takes its story all too seriously, offers curiously unexciting murders and a wide choice of uninteresting villains...