Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...
...spectacular achievement. For Harvard, however, it was another blow in a year of disasters. Their first eight had been declared ineligible for the Henley Regatta. The Grand Challenge Cup Committee had excluded the first boat because of a rule that a crew must have an amatuer coach during its last six weeks of training...
Bear in a Boat...
Five years ago, Fletcher Waller was toiling 14 hours a day as a Bell & Howell vice president in Chicago. "I loved sailing," he says, but he could never get his boat out. So, at 52, he quit his job and started his own business-renting boats and teaching sailing to overworked executives. Waller's income is now less than his former income tax, but he laughs at Who's Who for dropping him, extolls the magic effect on his marriage. "Why," he says, "we fell in love...
...trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications, or that shrimp-boat captains are uttering obscenities on ship-to-shore frequencies, it is the FCC that takes the rap. Besides all this, the FCC grapples with Comsat and community TV antenna development, not to mention countless research chores, such as the POPSI Project-measurement of "Precipitation and other types of Off-Path...