Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slalom event, the skier attempts to swing around six buoys staggered on either side of the boat wake. In the men's division, the skier enters the course at 30 m.p.h. for his first pass and at 32, 34, and 36 m.p.h. after that until he misses a buoy. Any skier who has successfully navigated the course at these speeds continues to pile up consecutive buoys by running through on tow lines shortened in six foot increments...
...Squalus, fresh from the Portsmouth shipyard, plunged 240 ft. to the bottom off the New Hampshire coast when water suddenly filled a compartment. Twenty-six men died in the flooded section, but others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying a telephone to the surface. Four hours later another sub found the buoy, talked by phone with those trapped below. Twenty-four hours after the Squalus sank, a Navy diver reached her deck and directed a 10-ton diving bell in four dramatic descents that saved...
...firsts and seconds. Before these wins, Stookey's third place position in the second race of the day had been disqualified for an infraction of the rules. The regatta protest committee ruled that the Harvard skipper had failed to allow enough time when asking for room to round a buoy on the course. The club has questioned the decision, but plans no formal action...
Skimming around the first buoy, Mosbacher's lead had been reduced to two boat lengths, a bare 12 sec. By the second eight-mile mark, it was still only 14 sec. Then Gretel and Sturrock stole the day. His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber. As the Australians surged past, Mosbacher's Yanks heard a roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late...
...foamy wake of public opinion bobs a bell buoy of truth. Perhaps this decision will elucidate the obvious: 1) that the U.S. is not a "Christian" nation; 2) that the slogan "In God We Trust" is probably also unconstitutional; 3) that attempts at blanket religion are encroachments upon the freedoms of every human, Christian or nonChristian...