Word: docks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heady peacetime years, the Normandie was the most magnificent ship afloat. The dining room, it was boasted, was longer and more lustrous than the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even...
Arthur Hollingsworth, seven-man on the heavyweight first boat, said his crew was well prepared for the Charles' chill winds, which were especially severe while the crews were waiting to dock. "The two-man carried a flask of brandy in his pocket--that warmed us up in no time," he added...
...back their jewels from the insurers. Even if sued, Gimbel could still get up to 50% of the salvage, depending on the courts. He will have to pay import duties on everything except currency and antiques. "This was not a treasure hunt," insists Gimbel, who was welcomed at the dock by U.S. Customs agents. Will he go down to the Andrea Doria again? No, says he. "I think it is time to stop testing myself...
...brown imbuia wood paneled Supreme Court chamber in Pretoria's imposing Palace of Justice was crowded with black spectators and white plain-clothes officers last week as Judge Charl Theron entered the room. Guilty of high treason, said Theron, referring to the three young black men in the dock, all members of South Africa's long-banned black liberation organization, the African National Congress (ANC). The sentence: death by hanging...
Dealers are already queuing up to sell the new boats, the first of which will be ready some time in the fall. Says Edmund Laviano, president of Bellpat Marine of East Patchogue, N.Y.: "The Hobie 33 looks as if it's doing 30 knots just sitting at the dock. I want one the minute the boat is available." The tinkerer from Southern California, who shepherded Americans onto surfboards in the 1960s and onto Hobie Cats in the 1970s, now hopes to lead them onto deepwater sailing ships in the 1980s...