Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). PT-109 (1963), with Cliff Robertson as Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy in command of a PT boat fighting a losing battle against a Japanese destroyer in World...
...principal members of this embattled cast of characters have appeared on our covers before (this is our 15th on China since the Communists seized power in 1949). Some were shown collectively three years ago, riding a Chinese dragon boat. Individually, it is the fourth time for Mao, followed by Premier Chou En-lai (three times), President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, all three of whom are now under attack. Our last China cover reported the rise of Defense Minister Lin Piao, who so far seems untouched in the power struggle. The story analyzed the phenomenon...
...Innings. One day in 1949, Campbell was sitting moodily in his father's study when a friend rushed in to tell him that U.S. Industrialist Henry Kaiser was building an aluminum boat designed to break Sir Malcolm's 1939 water-speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. "Why should they have everything?" Donald exploded. "By God, they won't have that record!" So Campbell, who by his own admission had "never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on the water and not much more on land," set out at 28 to fight his overmatch with speed...
...into the measured kilometer, picking up speed until he was doing an estimated 340 m.p.h. Suddenly, Campbell's voice crackled over the radio. "She's tramping [shaking]! She's tramping! She's going!" Bluebird's right pontoon lifted, then her nose; finally, the whole boat went airborne, looped over backward, slammed back into the water, and sank. Divers finally located Bluebird, split in two on the lake bottom 142 ft. below. At week's end they were still searching for Campbell's body...
Died. Donald Campbell, 45, British speed seeker; in the crack-up of his jet-powered boat; on Coniston Water, England (see SPORT...