Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." Cold war humor crackles on an island off New England when a Russian sub runs aground on a sand bar and its jittery crew, led by Broadway's Alan Arkin, inadvertently panic the populace in their hilarious efforts to get the tub launched again...
...finals-and lost each time. "It gets under your skin," he said. Now it looked like it might stay there. Early in the sixth race, he seemed hopelessly behind McNamara. But a wind shift caught McNamara unawares and then, rounding the first mark, the Bostonian and his two-man crew somehow committed the neophyte's gaffe of letting their spinnaker whip into an hourglass snarl. They took 1 min. 30 sec. to unfoul it, and limped in seventh to Cox's sixth. That put Cox only H points behind, 39|-381, and he poured...
...Slightly misjudging the tide and wind on his starboard side, McNamara headed straight for the second mark-giving Cox, who had shrewdly angled to windward to blanket McNamara's sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then did the incredible once again. The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay. This time it took 2 min. 35 sec. to un tangle the mess, and by then Bill Cox was well ahead and home free for the championship...
...agents spirit him across the Atlantic. Alas, before he can explain the discovery, he is attacked by enemy operatives and left in a coma caused by a blood clot in midbrain. Since no conventional operation is possible, the high command approves a daring plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into the carotid artery by hypodermic needle, with orders to navigate the bloodstream to the stricken area, where a surgeon (Arthur Kennedy) will excise the clot with an itsy-bitsy laser...
...Salinger of the incident in July 1960 when a U.S. Air Force RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea. Nixon, said Khrushchev, tried to use the incident to his advantage. Through an unnamed "high-ranking" Republican, explained Khrushchev, Nixon "approached us with the request to release the crew members of the American RB-47. We of course understood that Nixon wished to make political capital out of this for himself in advance of the elections...