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...tempered by a serious heart condition. Nonetheless, he was determined to enter this year's prestigious Capetown-to-Rio yacht race if it killed him. The 3,500-mile ocean grind might do exactly that, Bruynzeel's doctors warned; they ordered him to remain on the dock. He refused, explaining that a bracing sea voyage "is better for my health than sitting around thinking about...
...arrive last week and receive a grand welcome from the 200,000 or more sunbathers who crowd Rio's Ipanema and Copacabana beaches on Sunday afternoons. Instead, 100 late diners at the Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club were startled when the first boat arrived at the yacht-club dock unannounced shortly before midnight Saturday with a new record time of 21 days 12 hr. Even more remarkable was the fact that the winner was Stormy, piloted across the finish line by the old man of the sea himself...
Last week, in a classic comeback story, Slayton got his wish. NASA named him to the crew of the Apollo spacecraft that will rendezvous and dock with a Russian Soyuz spaceship in 1975. His crewmates will be Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Stafford, a veteran of one Apollo and two Gemini flights, and Civilian Astronaut Vance Brand, another space rookie. Though obviously elated, the crewcut, 48-year-old Slayton-who will be the oldest American to go into space by the time of the launch -greeted the news in his characteristic gritty style: "I'd rather...
...October relieved his outspoken War Minister, General Mohammed Sadek; no reason was ever stated but anti-Sadat army grumbling was at the root of it. Afterward there were rumors in Cairo of abortive military coups. Egyptian journalists openly agitate against censorship. In a recent incident in Alexandria, 7,000 dock workers stormed a police station to free fellow laborers who had been arrested for participating in a wildcat strike. The situation is so perilous that Sadat, in the glow that followed his expulsion of Soviet military advisors (TIME, July 31), quietly introduced stiff new laws to punish acts that "threaten...
This case will set no national precedent. What made the trial interesting-and the occasion for a totally new set of arguments-was the movie that was in the dock. Called Deep Throat, it is the story of a rapacious girl named Linda Lovelace. In spite of dozens of greatly varied sexual experiments, Linda is never really satisfied, never sees those well-known fireworks. It is only when she learns from a helpful doctor that her clitoris, for some strange reason, is misplaced and imbedded in her throat, that she is able to improve her sex life dramatically. "I love...