Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHIP OF FOOLS. Grand Hotel afloat, with Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner expertly rocking Katherine Anne Porter's boat...
Planes & Ships. The U.S. first bombed the north in August 1964 in tit-for-tat retaliation for a torpedo-boat attack on two Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf. Regular bombings began last February; since then U.S. and South Vietnamese planes have flown more than 50,000 sorties against the enemy. The 800 planes in use range from the old prop-driven Skyraider, whose fond jockeys insist that it can fly home with nearly as much enemy lead in it as the four tons of bombs it can carry out, to the droop-nosed, brutal-looking...
...beach. Fact is, Seventh Fleet Commander Admiral Paul P. Blackburn's floating artillery can make life miserable-and hazardous-for the V.C. up to fifteen miles from the coast, and his screen of smaller craft on patrol duty in "Operation Market Time" has sharply limited V.C. gunrunning by boat along the shore...
...senior fourswith-cox race, the Regatta's feature attraction, lost importance when the favored boat from the Vesper Boat Club didn't show...
...afternoon's final event, two Harvard eights came in second and third behind a high-stroking entry from Washington's Potomac Boat Club. The runnerup shell, composed mostly of junior aspirants for varsity seats, finished 32 seconds off Potomac's 15:48 mark. Harvard's second boat, made up of sophomores, completed the course five seconds later...