Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central intelligence organization. Tan and three other Viet Cong agents were sent south to set up a clandestine radio station. The move was by sea, and the fledgling spies were outfitted with false identity papers, voting cards and fishermen's permits, then sent aboard an actual fishing boat. They were even trained in fishing skills so their covers would hold up. Aboard the boat they carried six sealed boxes containing guns, a generator, several radios and a bundle of South Vietnamese currency. But no sooner were they at sea than a storm blew up. The fishing boat...
Last week Bluebeard's Castle hotel in St. Thomas moved its employees out of their quarters into private homes to make room for overbooked guests. Bachelors staying at Antigua's Anchorage Hotel were invited to sleep aboard a sightseeing boat. One Miami rental office hung out the sign, "Why sleep in your car? Come to us" for those who had come on down only to find the town all booked...
...crew could see the lights of Rio and searchlights playing across the finish line. "At 8 p.m.," said Miles, "we were just four miles off the line. Suddenly we saw the searchlights on the line flash white as they struck sails. We thought it was just a boat coming out to watch the finish. But it wasn't." It was Ondine riding across from the east...
Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...
...lines. Roemer doesn't mean to suggest that he simply transfers reality to film, by aiming a camera at life. He explains, "I'm not a very physical person... I first got the idea of what Duff was like by reading Jack London, who used to row a boat across to an island and listen to the seals singing... I thought of Duff as me, which is the only way you can make a film really...