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...strong winds bothered Radcliffe all weekend, and caused cancellation of several races on Saturday. In one gust, an empty boat without its sail up got loose from the dock and capsized in a puff...
Iran quite simply wants to do too much too fast. The trouble can be most easily seen anywhere needed imports arrive. Every Iranian port on the Persian Gulf, from Abadan to Bandar Abbas, has become not a gateway but a bottleneck. Dock facilities are totally inadequate to handle the volume of goods that have been ordered. Despite round-the-clock shifts for longshoremen and feverish construction of new piers, the average time for a ship to get a berth is an almost incredible 150 days...
...movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether the Navy could not give him another berth for his boat. David sought to calm him. He told him the way to avoid...
...hours spent on the water, hauling heavy "drudges" and sorting crabs as they scamper across a pitching deck have fostered a deep affection for the stoic, whimsical fisher folk. That feeling shines through Warner's retelling of Jaws-style crises spawned at "liar's bench" on the dock at Crisfield...
...Crimson publishes a list of candidates President Bok is considering for the Deanship of the Med School. The list includes: Doc Watson, Doc Medich, E.L. Doctorow, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Doctor John, Baby Doc Duvalier, Doc Hines, Dock Ellis, Otis Redding, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Doctor Doolittle...