Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow and then to Havana. Others worked their way to the Yucatan, and were whisked by special undercover "fishing fleets" across the 125-mile Yucatan Channel to Cuba. A Venezuelan guerrilla leader named Amerigo Martin even went so far as to travel to Colombia and sign aboard a boat bound for Spain, where he evidently planned to fly to Eastern Europe and then to Cuba; en route, however, his boat docked in Venezuela, and police-tipped off-picked him up along with his aide...
...been a matter for cartographic concern-not to mention diplomatic debates and tourist-promotion schemes. Joyful that the shrines of the Old City are in Jewish hands for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, Jews from all over the world are signing up for pilgrimages. Plane and boat reservations for trips from France to Israel are sold out for two months in advance. "Israel," says TWA sales manager in Chicago, John J. Sweeney, "is a hot destination." Wary about the possibility of renewed hostilities, gentiles have been more hesitant, although travel agents report increasing interest in future tours...
...have been repeatedly drop-tested in laboratory experiments. Computerized simulations of re-entry have uncovered potential flaws that are being corrected; Johnson's nylon heat shield has stood up well under rigorous tests at NASA's Langley Research Center. Next step: drop tests of the full-size boat in the earth's atmosphere, and then an unmanned test in space...
...other trial heat. Cuba outpaced Mexico and Paraguay. Cuba and the United States, by winning their respective heats, will go automatically into the finals Saturday night. The other four boats will race again today, and the first three will also enter the finals. The two days of heats are required to eliminate just one boat...
...unhurried tourist, there are trips by steamer, excursion boat or hydrofoil on the Volga and Don rivers from Kazan to Volgograd to Rostovon-Don, along the Dnieper from Kiev to Kherson, up the Neva from Leningrad to Petrodvorets. For the most part, tourists report that the equipment is modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke...