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...former Special Air Service warrior who runs a survival camp on an island near the Hebrides, had already rowed singlehanded across the Atlantic west to east in 1969, and his record of 70.7 days still stands. But his Ridiculously Small Boat celebrity vanished in only two weeks, when Bill Dunlop, 42, a former truck driver from Mechanic Falls, Me., bobbed into the harbor at Falmouth, England, in Wind's Will, a teapot just over 9 ft. long that he had sailed from Portland. The two became friends, but McClean was not having second best; he told Dunlop that...
...preparing to do so, another American, an unemployed computer technician named Wayne Dickinson, washed up on the rocks of Ireland in God's Tear, 142 days after setting sail from Point Allerton, Mass. God's Tear, indeed; Dickinson's boat was about 2 in. shorter than Dunlop's. McClean now had two American tiny-tub artists to beat, and earlier this month he succeeded, despite a broken mast in the Bay of Biscay, reaching Portugal in the bobtailed Giltspur, now a mere 7 ft. 9 in. overall. "The more people say a thing...
Giltspur could diminish even further; its owner is only 5 ft. 6 in. tall, and he still has his chain saw. But Dickinson is not rushing to challenge the record. Dunlop, meanwhile, could not be bothered about such trifles. Three weeks ago, he left Portland, Me., to sail Wind's Will around the world. He said he would be back some time in 1986, although he would not say just when. "I might be a day or two late," said Dunlop. "I don't want anyone down on the dock waiting...
...elderly dying patient seemed to have slipped from life when Dr. George Dunlop, then a surgical intern at Cincinnati General Hospital, stepped in and managed to revive him. The patient, unable to speak, motioned for a pencil and wrote, unforgettably to Dr. Dunlop, "Why did you do this...
...University presidents are required to live in Cambridge, Bok moved with his family from Belmont to the designated residence of the Dean of the Faculty, Elmwood House, which had been recently vacated by then-Dean John T. Dunlop...