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That it has a working crew becomes clear as the boat enters the lock. With practiced ease, Deck Hand Basil Kuvshinikov, whose name and accent both attest to his origins in the Russian city of Smolensk, steps ashore and walks beside the slowly moving boat, a loop of its thick forward hawser over his shoulder. As he slips the loop over one of the mushroom-shaped bollards onshore, another deck hand, a stocky, bearded man named Tim Burke, tightens the line, snubbing the Peckinpaugh to the side of the lock...
Madison is content with his life, in spite of its negatives. The pay-$26,000 a year-is not all that much, but it's enough to get by and he has just bought Nancy a microwave oven. This year he built a deck on the back of their home where they enjoy cool summer evenings. Besides, the alternatives seem unacceptable. Madison hates cities, and traffic makes him irritable. "I love the freedom," he says. "I think I've got the best job there...
...last four years," as if he had traveled in a time machine back to 1980. Mondale taxed the President with not knowing that submarine-launched missiles are "recallable"; he meant the exact opposite. Reagan got a big laugh by deriding a TV ad showing Mondale on the deck of an aircraft carrier, which the President identified as the Nimitz; if Mondale's policies had been followed, said Reagan, "he'd be deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never have been built. Actually, Mondale would have been high and dry; the carrier was the Midway, which...
...Marsden arrived on the scene as a person interested in comets," Gingerich recalls. "At the time, there was a bright comet which caused an enormous stir, and he was on deck to help out. At that time I felt it was reasonable for him to take over." Gingerich remained on hand as an associate director...
Mondale, Reagan said, had a "record of weakness with regard to our national defense that is second to none." Noting that the Democratic candidate has aired a campaign TV spot showing him standing on the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, the President asserted that if Mondale "had had his way ... he would have been deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never have been built...