Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rock the Boat. To challenge the President, the G.O.P. has neither a figure of sufficient national stature nor an issue that is sufficiently foolproof. "Viet Nam, inflation, high interest, violence-these are the issues of 1966," cries House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, but the fact is that local issues will probably overshadow all of them. Further, the President is taking extreme pains not to rock the boat with any overly controversial decisions before Election Day. In this situation, G.O.P. leaders privately concede that they stand scant chance of recovering the 38 House seats they lost in the '64 Donnybrook...
...caught, the refugees often face brutal treatment at the hands of border guards. But not always. Take the skipper of a Rumanian patrol boat who recently intercepted a family of five that was trying to row across the Black Sea to Turkey. The skipper ordered the runaway family into the cutter, ordered his seamen into the rowboat, and the six roared off together toward the Turkish horizon-and freedom...
...such big-boat races as the America's Cup and the Newport-Bermuda contest, the winner owes as much to his boat as he does to his own sailing savvy...
...final race, Cox merely had to finish one place behind McNamara, and he would win in the overall standings. Easier said than sailed. With a quick start, McNamara put a boat between himself and Cox at the first mark. "We've lost it," thought Cox. Not quite. Slightly misjudging the tide and wind on his starboard side, McNamara headed straight for the second mark-giving Cox, who had shrewdly angled to windward to blanket McNamara's sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then...
...police were everywhere. Detectives mingled with sunbathers beside Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake, barged into Soho nightclubs, shone lights on the faces of couples necking in cars. Police search parties combed the London docks, held up the departure of two boat trains at Victoria Station, boarded freighters in three ports, and closely examined departing passengers at London Airport. Army helicopters hovered over 200 policemen fanning through the fields of Berkshire. Led by Alsatian dogs, hundreds of armed officers tramped for days through the forests of Epping, Savernake and Watford. A police patrol boat even picked up a vacationing German...