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Word: boatfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sliding roof and hydraulic lift, two getaway cars and a crew to operate them. Because nearly $110,000 of his swag was in traceable notes, he had to dispose of them in the underworld at a 50% discount. Escaping from England cost him $45,000 for a small boat, hiding places on either side of the Channel and escorts. Abroad he visited a plastic surgeon for expensive ($7,000) alterations to his face and fingertips. He spent 15 months in hiding, then bought a fake passport and flew to Australia as Terrence Furminger. From Adelaide he sent back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Paradise Lost | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Married. Corrine Huff, 28, onetime beauty queen and former secretary and No. 1 companion to high-living Congressman Adam Clayton Powell; and Patrick Brown, 25, until recently Powell's Bimini-based fishing-boat captain; both for the first time; in an Anglican ceremony; in Bimini, the Bahamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Nervously, the little band of rescuers stared toward the dark shore from their boat, anchored off the bleak, remote Greek isle of Amorgos. Finally, they spotted the faint beam of a flashlight. By walkie-talkie, they confirmed that their man was ready to be picked up. Two crewmen hopped into a rubber dinghy and paddled to the beach. Twenty minutes later, they were back with a passenger: George Mylonas, 50, Greece's former Under Secretary for Education, who had been exiled to the island 14 months earlier by the military junta as a "threat to public security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The L.B.J. Caper | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Scialoja and his group talked loudly about their plans to visit the Panayia Khoroviotissa, a monastery which gave them their only excuse for visiting the island. On the route to the monastery, they hid a walkie-talkie for Mylonas and returned to their boat. That night -after the quick trip back to shore in the rubber dinghy-they sailed away with their extra passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The L.B.J. Caper | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Abbott Reeve skippered Harvard's winning entry in B division, and Joe Worth was the skipper in the victorious C division boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Take Trophy, Top M.I.T. in Regatta | 10/15/1969 | See Source »

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