Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cruiser-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 180 lbs.), handsome Tom Gates dresses with hand-tailored, striped-tie conservatism ("He is," says a longtime friend, "about the only man I know who wears both button-down collars and a collar pin"), works and lives quietly, avoids Washington's social swim. In the office from 8:30 to 7:30 p.m. six days a week, he often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt...
...green boater has no business in these waters. But an old pro-such as A'Delbert Frank Rich, 41, a Cedar City optometrist and twelve-year boating veteran-should have been safe enough. Aboard his 15-ft., red-and-white cruiser he confidently brought his wife Penney, 35, and his parents, Frank, 65, and Lillian...
Fiddling with elaborate detectors, Lieut. Walter Johnson, 29, of the Navy's medical corps, was measuring the power density of microwave radiation from radar beams aboard the guided-missile cruiser Galveston. All at once he felt a slight burning sensation in his backside. Dr. Johnson happened to have a couple of neon lamps (the size of flashbulbs) in his hip pocket. With no wires or other connections, the lamps had glowed and heated up when he got in the way of radar waves...
...Freeport, L.I., a commuter stops off at a boatyard for a quick look at his newly bought 26-ft. cruiser, admires her lines with the air of Michelangelo studying the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In a Chicago boatyard, a bandanna-hooded woman sprawls beneath her boat to apply a coat of copper paint. In St. Paul, seven families buy seven new houseboats, begin the 322-mile homeward trip down the Mississippi to Clinton, Iowa. In Seattle, 1,000 boat owners, burgees and pennants flapping, parade from Lake Union to Lake Washington to herald the opening of the new season...
...overload small boats and they go too fast. If they have enough gas to go eight miles, they'll go eight miles straight out and then have to be brought in." Last year a Coast Guard boat chugged out to rescue a man whose brand-new, 36-ft. cruiser had broken down. The rescuers tossed him a towline, whereupon the stalled skipper triumphantly tied it around his waist and hollered "Let's go!" One of the classic invitations to trouble comes for the outboard owner when the engine quits. The owner lunges to the stern...