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...Polaris program, the Navy will get delivery of the 60,000-ton Constellation, the conventional carrier that was swept by fire last December while still in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the 75,700-ton Enterprise, first nuclear-powered carrier, and the 14,000-ton Long Beach, first nuclear-powered cruiser. The Navy also will get seven new guided-missile frigates (one nuclear powered), which will be used largely in anti-submarine warfare...
About 50 million American women fight the Medusa menace-the serpentine hairdo that turned thousands of men to stone -without the help of hairdressers. They wash their own hair at home, set it with enough metal to plate a light cruiser, and then wonder how to dry it. Adding to the available hand dryers (wearying) and the portable hood models, the Norge division of Borg-Warner now offers a new solution -an attachment that snaps over the clothes port of any Norge laundry dryer...
...cabin cruiser had enough electronic equipment to fit out a small space satellite: hifi, stereo, TV, RDF, ship-to-shore radio, as well as refrigerator, push-button electric anchor, three-ton central air-conditioning unit, and separate power plant. Bored by the waste of time involved in troll fishing, its skipper located fishing holes with his electronic depth gauge, then sportingly set out bait and hook. Sleek and awesome as a jet fighter, as it nosed through the same waters, was a 16-ft. home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat...
...years, government dams and flood-control projects have created scores of man-made lakes that dot Texas' parched and sweltering flatlands (there are only about half a dozen natural lakes in Texas). Because of Texas' excellent, uncrowded highways, distance is no object. One industrialist trailed his cabin cruiser behind his car on a 1,000-mile business trip so that he could get in a day's fishing on the Gulf; Abilene sailors think nothing of trundling their Snipes 180 miles to a regatta in Dallas. Asked to explain his booming sales, a boat dealer...
...work, Dykstra likes to raise flowers (roses, daffodils, tulips) in the garden of his Georgian colonial home in suburban Bloomfield Vil lage, where he lives with his wife Marion. Another hobby: quick trips to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he has a home and a 33-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser for deep-sea fishing...