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...Located by a yellow telephone buoy at a depth of 240 ft., Squalus ultimately relinquished 33 of her crewmen to safety; 26 others had been drowned in a flooded aftercompartment...
...defined the enemy: "It's not the hippie, it's the hip-bo." The Mayor leaned back. The word is of his own devising, and he is proud of it. "Hip-bo comes from three things. First, hobo. Second, the combination of hippie and bum. Third, from Life Buoy soap. Remember that commercial with the foghorn blowing B-O, B-O?" To Hayes hip-bo's are the ragged tail-enders of the hippie movement, the floaters without money. "There are chronic drug and narcotic users," he charges...
...that clear to everybody? Of course it isn't, except to fairly serious sailors. What it is, approximately, is Skipper Bus Mosbacher's explanation of what his Intrepid crew does when rounding a buoy on an America's Cup racecourse. Taking such esoteric language uttered by experts in their field-whether it be computers (see U.S. BUSINESS) or toxicology (see MEDICINE) or catechetics (see RELIGION) or sailing-and turning it into a story that a non-expert can understand is a facet of our job that we consider of major importance. Bridging that language gap between specialist...
...races against Australia, and is favored to do the same with Intrepid this year. There was Intrepid, skipping merrily across Long Island Sound, en route to an easy victory over American Eagle in last week's preliminary cup trials. Then Bus steered the wrong way around a buoy, had to come about -and thereby converted a 56-sec. lead into a 1-min. 2-sec. defeat...
...their own interpretation, Böhm thinks of himself as the trustee of the composer, lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot...