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...tiara sparkling in the blazing lights. Queen Elizabeth bade Chicago farewell. As sirens wailed and fireworks plumed above the lake, Queen and Prince boarded Britannia to sail on to Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur. In the harbor, a lone amateur trumpeter, on the deck of his cabin cruiser, touchingly sounded his own version of Pomp and Circumstance...
Chaprales, who has owned the University Restaurant for ten years, does most of his fishing in a 30-foot Pacemaker cabin cruiser, but caught the marlin in another boat. A good thing it was, too, because the fish's beak went through the side of the ship's hull. Three men had to sit on the marlin to keep it down...
...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...
...Riches plowed into boiling rapids, where men and boats have little chance. Up and down, 6-ft., turbulent swells bounced the cruiser. It capsized. Father Frank Rich was heard to scream: "Here we go." Those were his last words. Del Rich pulled his wife from under the boat, and they clawed to shore, watching father and mother bob downstream. Exhausted and distraught, they prayed. Then they limped upstream over sharp limestone, looking for help. "Someone will come," said Penney. "We were not saved from the water to die on the shore...