Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sinister psychopath in what he calls "glossy movies," such as You Only Live Twice and The Night of the Generals. He doesn't mind, partly because "evil people seem more interesting," partly because of the money he can make. This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters...
Just about every able-bodied sportfisherman in the Midwest was driving, flying or hitchhiking to Lake Michigan. Boats were passing under the Manistee River bridge at the rate of 13 a min ute. Anything that would float was in the water, from rowboats, canoes and sailboats on up to a 50-ft. deep-sea fish ing boat, Mitchell, up from the Ba hamas. Said Fisherman Bob Hurtel: "If there was one boat out there, there were 5,000. You could almost walk across the water on them...
...long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying to charter a boat for three months: "I come from muskie country. This is the nearest thing to deep-sea fishing I'll ever...
...most safety experts, licensing of boat operators isn't an "obvious answer" [Sept. 6]-it's a superficial one. Could a license have saved the boob who drove through the cabin cruiser or the nine nuts who went off without life jackets? Hot-rodders in cars have no trouble passing licensing tests. Neither would hot-rod skippers. More lives could be saved for less money by beefing up Coast Guard and state patrols to enforce our boating laws...
...peace smack of something for nothing. The unemployed, over-fecund recipients of the taxpayers' generosity seem ever less grateful, ever more pugnacious-just as organized labor grew more militant with each advantage gained. Where will it all end? ask many uneasy Americans. Will the second car or the boat be sacrificed to higher taxes? Will Daughter be raped or robbed by a black-nationalist hoodlum or move in with a beaded, bearded white hippie? Will Junior's college career-the dividend of long years of saving-end on a picket line organized by anarchists who wave Viet Cong...