Word: boatmen
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...machine reads the $5 bill electronically, and if it approves of it, tucks it away and dispenses a small pasteboard box containing the foreign currency required, with the change in U.S. coins (less a 30? charge). CJ Outboard engine with an automatic clutch, manufactured by Johnson Motors, which enables boatmen to shift through reverse, neutral and forward speeds without first having to operate a manual clutch. The first such feature to be added to outboards, the automatic transmission uses electromagnets to move the clutch assemblies. Prices: from $755 for a 40-h.p. engine, from...
Plugs & Hooks. Experienced boatmen, however, tend to view the Texas mariner sourly. "He's a damned cowboy, that's what he is," says one. "He's got a beer can in one hand, the throttle in the other, and he doesn't know the rules of the road." Hot-rodding across the water, many young boatmen have towed water skiers into stumps or other boats; one small lake near San Antonio noted one death per week last summer. At Lake Lavon, near Dallas, speed demons and water skiers thundered down on so many defenseless fishermen that...
...other Texas boatmen are never threatened by such violence. So enticing is marina living that they never leave the slip all weekend long, as they sun on the boat deck, swim off the stern, and cook in the galley. To add to their comfort. Lake Texoma port authorities have come up with a novel, congenial, and undemanding way of fishing: the "Fisharena." This is a huge building built out over the lake, with a circular hole cut into the floor so that 500 anglers can fish the waters below at one time. In true Texas style, the Fisharena is heated...
...time when most boatmen have thrown away their snow shovels and hibernated, headed for a warm bar, or returned to work, the varsity sailing team has scheduled one, last, never-say-die regatta...
...switch with bewildering speed from bully to ham. "Communism is my elixir of life," he bragged. "All I want is to live long enough to see the Red flag flying all over the world." At one point, riding through the Alps by cable car, he burst into the Volga Boatmen's song, insisted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko join in. While his wife Nina stayed humbly to the rear, he flirted with his attractive blonde Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, 50. They joined in frequent private giggles, and occasionally she straightened his tie. But the pace began to tell...