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...saddening to learn that only 9% of U.S. boatmen are sailboat enthusiasts. Even more so to conclude that the remaining 91% fail to experience or comprehend the beauty and sense of satisfaction a sailor receives when he combines his skill with the forces of nature to make white sails glide...
Extra Weight. Oxford's early sprint earned a brief lead. Carnegie's boatmen slowly dropped back. Their No. 5 oar, Peter Barnard, biggest man in the boat, had collapsed. Carrying his dead weight was too much to ask of any style. At the end of the four-mile 374-yd. race, Cambridge was two lengths in front...
...million tons of Allied and neutral shipping, with a loss of tens of thousands of Allied lives in World War II. "Kill and keep on killing," jug-eared, ice-blue-eyed Dönitz had exhorted his U-boat captains. "Remember, no survivors. Humanity is a weakness." The U-boatmen responded by firing on torpedoed crews struggling in the water...
Then last March several hundred Geor gian prisoners arrived at the camps. They had been arrested in Tiflis for taking part in a demonstration when the authorities failed to observe the third anniversary of Georgia-born Stalin's death (March 5). This seemed proof of the river boatmen's reports that the new regime was genuinely anti-Stalin. On April 3 at Mirnoye camp, some 600 miles north of Tomsk, "Stalin's victims" sent a delegation to the camp commandant asking for an amnesty in the light of the Kremlin's new policy...
...Corps of Discovery was composed of hardy Kentucky hunters and frontiersmen, French boatmen and soldiers in leather collars with their hair in pigtails. Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered...