Word: catamaran
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...Havasu, Ariz. To landlubbers, outboard-motor-boat racing may seem pretty put-put, and indeed, the rules at Havasu limited boats strictly to "stock" models - except that there was no limit on how many engines anyone could stack. California's Bob Ogle turned up with a 17-ft. catamaran powered by five 85-h.p. McCulloch engines, capable of doing 102 m.p.h. Only slightly less potent was U-707, a 17-ft. cat with three 105-h.p. Chryslers, and driven by a trio of leadfoots calculated to inspire respect: Major William Knight, holder of the world air speed record...
...TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold, the weather was terrible the first few days, and Cuban patrol boats were everywhere. "Big, fast boats," recalled one of the infiltrators. "We saw ten in all." So the small band zoomed around tiny keys that lie between Florida and Cuba, testing their 24-ft. catamaran and tinkering with their boat's two 100-h.p. Volvo inboard-outboard engines. The Volvos were gobbling gas and running hot at high speed. Nevertheless, Ray finally decided that the time had come. The five FN Belgian rifles with flash suppressors, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades...
...sends over numerous reconnaissance flights. So it was hardly surprising that Her Majesty's destroyer Decoy steamed up to look around. But it surprised Ray and his group. Frantically, they tried to hide their equipment. Then five of the party, including two freelance photographers, gunned away in the catamaran, hoping to decoy the Decoy away from the island while Ray stayed behind...
...death, but the legal loose ends still remained to be cleared up. At last, in a Westchester, N.Y., surrogate's court, an affidavit was filed by his father to have Michael Rockefeller declared legally deceased. Lost two years ago off the southern New Guinea coast when his catamaran capsized, Mike at 23 left an estate of $660,000 in mixed investments. In the absence of a will, the money will go to his parents, Nelson Rockefeller and First Wife Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller...
...still married to Reventlow. "I adore him," she says. They live separately, date others, and sometimes join up for happy weekends sailing their catamaran. As Mrs. Reventlow, she is heir-in-law to the F. W. Woolworth millions, and has no shortage of charge accounts to fuel her fabled whims. Getting interested in tropical fish, she once filled her house with vast aquariums. She has dived to a depth of 100 feet in an Aqualung. At Santa Monica's Ocean Park, she jumps in with the porpoises and lets them nibble little fish from her fingers...