Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back on earth, the ingenious rope could be used underwater to aid aquanauts. Average citizens might well want a version to moor a boat or tow a car, the idea in both cases being to keep things apart as well as together. And Dr. Marton thinks his brainchild might make a big public impact from whence it sprang-as a toy. Flung out loose and then frozen, it makes a marvelously accurate lasso as well as tripper-upper and grabber-onto of things it wraps around. His two children have already demolished two of his homemade versions...
...Cornwall, where 100 miles of beaches were polluted, almost everyone volunteered to help. Hundreds of men, women and children turned up with buckets and watering cans, formed human chains to rush the detergent from trucks into the water. At St. Ives, the town's entire 27-boat fishing fleet patrolled offshore areas with detergent. At least 15,000 sea birds were killed by the oil, and Britons rallied to save thousands more by cleaning their feathers with absorbent compounds...
Last week Gretel was back in the water with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause...
Tufts, which won the McMillan Cup last fall over nine Eastern crews including Harvard and Navy, ranks as a co-favorite for the race with the University of California at Berkeley, whose boat will be skippered by Scot Allen, the assistant helmsman on Columbia, an America's Cup hopeful...
...Oxford: the 113th Oxford-Cambridge boat race, by an easy 3¼ lengths on London's Thames River. With California's Jonathan Jensen rowing No. 4 and Connecticut's John Bockstoce in the bow, the Dark Blue eight swept into the lead at the start, maintained a steady beat of 34 strokes per min., and stayed in front for the full 4 miles...