Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sleep. There are moments on the album when the songs seem to fit together as nicely as a string of dreams. The slow western drawl promising to take you away "across the wide open sheets of the prairie" leads into a faster country tune, "Racing Boat," that hinges on escape. But this time Waldman is running away from the blues. There's a noticeable difference, though, between the quality of lyrics here and in Mitchell's Blue. Waldman's sense of fantasy seems to be rooted in the commercial drives of L.A. where she grew up. While Mitchell's childhood...
...first step was to locate the submarine precisely. The Navy dispatched to the waters north of Hawaii its ultrasecret research ship Mizar, a floating electronics laboratory. Like a fishing boat seeking to snare an exotic fish, Mizar put overboard an array of devices: sonar, electronic scanners, cameras equipped with powerful strobe lights, and a magnetic sensor that reacts to the presence of metal on the seabed. For two months Mizar patiently towed its paraphernalia across every inch of the ten-mile-square area until it had detected, scanned and thoroughly photographed the Soviet submarine...
...Canal, sailed round the Horn and made for Los Angeles, where she rendezvoused with her companion, HMB-1. Fittingly, Glomar Explorer docked at Long Beach's Pier E, which is located only about 50 yds. from the hangar that for years has housed Hughes' gigantic plywood flying boat, known irreverently as "the Spruce Goose." Though Howard Hughes last month finally agreed to dispose of the Goose, giving parts of it to the Smithsonian, it remains at present in the hangar, a monument to his single-minded determination...
Seat racing has just started, but if one thing is certain it is that there will be no free rides into the varsity boat. Gold medalists A1 Shealy, Dick Cashin and Rick Grogan, all the varsity oarsmen, and "a couple of last year's JVs who aren't rowing like JVs anymore" will be fighting for varsity spots along with promising sophomores such as Bill Kerins and John Brock...
...most haunting image of the Indochina War, was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in the Pictures-of-the-Year competition. Adams also won prizes for several individual pictures, including a portrait of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (TIME, May 20) and a photo of straining oarsmen in a boat race in Abu Dhabi (TIME...