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...Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered out, and watched helplessly as his $150,000 craft split open and sank...
...bauxite, Japan has signed a ten-year agreement for 1,000,000 tons a year, to be mined at Cape York Peninsula, Australia...
...Nobody goes to the Cape in the winter." The phrase haunts you as you speed down the Southeast Expressway, past the three-deckered homes of South Boston, past the innumerable suburbs. You didn't go skiing and the New York trip some-how fizzled out and you just can't bear Cambridge for one more day; so on a whim you try the Cape--sand dunes covered with snow, tufts of tall, yellow grass peeking out of the white cover--that kind of thing. And you find yourself driving over the canal, anxious for your first look at wintry Cape...
...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
...little town is dark now, and even more quiet. You stop for coffee at the Wharf Diner. Fishermen. Parkas. heavy shoes. Army water-repellent coats. Bacon and eggs, Charlie. You boys from Boston? A young man strikes up a conversation. Now, there's nothing to do on the Cape in the winter. I mean, I like it, it's pretty and all that, but not for a single guy, ya know what I mean? It's really dead here now. Signs advertising Beach Plum jelly (a Cape Cod speciality). Outside the town is pitch black, the old. Cape houses warm...