Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago. "Mostly it's just plain stupidity." Seasoned boatmen still shake their heads over the youthful sport who recently went blasting around Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., with a water-skier in tow. Keeping his eyes on the skier, he slammed at 30 m.p.h. into a cabin cruiser, decapitating himself in the process. Equally foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June. Naturally, the boat soon foundered; eight of the nine boaters drowned. All nine might have been saved if they had only thought to carry...
...several strange things happened. A U.S. Navy patrol boat was sunk off the DMZ by unidentified fire, the nearby Australian destroyer H.M.S. Hobart was holed in at least 200 places by what turned out to be three U.S. air-to-air Sparrow missiles, and three other vessels, including the cruiser U.S.S. Boston, reported that they had been fired...
...foremost possibility was Indonesia's biggest vessel, the dilapidated, Soviet-built cruiser Irian, once referred to by wags as "Sukarno's floating cocktail lounge." Washington accepted the proposal last week. Hanoi rejected it on the ground that Indonesia, which thwarted a Communist takeover 2½ years ago, is "not neutral." Chuckled one British official: "Why don't we try to get the North Koreans to offer the Pueblo...
...deaths were caused by the natural hazards of insurrection. Negro Construction Worker Harold Bentley, 34, was walking close to a smoldering Washington building when a wall collapsed on him. Lois T. Majette, 20, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a police cruiser on the way to Baltimore's riot scene. In all, despite disorders in 168 communities, only six lives were taken by rioters' anger...
...Tennessee court decisions banning strikes by public service workers, the mayor brought in some 150 strikebreakers. The Negro community countered with a boycott of downtown stores with the slogan: "No new clothes for Easter." Seven hundred Negroes picnicked in city hall. A few youngsters tried to overturn a police cruiser. Nervous cops sprayed the kids' faces with Mace. Injunctions were brought against union leaders. When a contingent of Negro ministers and militants returned to city hall, a raucous exchange of words resulted in the arrest of 117 protesters. They went willingly and gently, two by two, singing "Leaning...