Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the schedule Long has planned for Ondine, he had better corner the Dramamine supply. Last week, only days after the Newport-Bermuda contest, Ondine was racing again, on a 3,700-mile course across the Atlantic to Travem¨unde, Germany-a voyage that will take most of a month. After that, it's off to the Pacific for two more long races. What makes Huey sail? Publicly, he talks like John Masefield. Privately he admits: "My only fun is winning...
...unit, began his economical setup with Army-surplus water tanks for mixing, storing and delivering dialysate fluid to his eleven artificial kidneys. He uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported...
...portage his canoe, or just drive out into the country and go exploring in the woods. He has a pilot's license, a brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit...
...last week began to abandon Khe Sanh, the once idyllic valley in South Viet Nam's northwest corner that early this year became the scene of the war's biggest and bitterest siege. The news could hardly have been more startling. For months, the American people had been told that the base was indispensable to U.S. strategy and prestige. When its 6,200-man garrison came under siege and heavy artillery bombardment from the North Vietnamese in mid-January, some observers saw an ominous similarity to Dienbienphu. The French base had been overrun in 1954 by another North...
...replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each time around Palmeira. Catholic-educated Palmeira, the son of a wealthy state senator who supports Costa, is disdainful of Russian Communism, also opposes "the weight of American capital in our country." When told that Dutra...