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...tide is mighty, and it takes a big engine to hold a boat against it, especially a boat with nets down 12 ft. deep. And there is only so much room cross the mouth of the channel -- room, say, for 20 boats, elbow to elbow. So position is everything. The nets in front take the tide-bestowed bounty; the nets behind, on the lesser powered boats, scoop in what is left. If this were a democratic game, the boats on the line would drop back with their fill after a set time, allowing those behind a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Gone Shrimping | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...seemed an unlikely scenario early in the season when Candelaria missed the first three months because of elbow problems. But he went 10-2 with a 2.55 earned-run average after coming back in July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candelaria, Boyd Match-Up in Game 3 | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Clemens, pitching for the first time since being struck on the right elbow by a line drive last week, could not find his rhythm early on the clear, 50-degree night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Blasted, 8-1 | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

...elbow feels fine and our bats will be there," said Clemens, who said he is recovered from a line drive that hit him in the right elbow last Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Host Angels Tonight; NL'ers Set For Tomorrow | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...Elbow grease and friends help. Larry Bauman, 36, a petroleum geologist, and five partners bought the Palm Leaf in 1982 for $5,000. After 5,000 hours and an investment of $100,000, the gleaming silver Pullman is within a few weeks of rolling out of Denver. Is it worth it? To paraphrase J.P. Sr.: If you have to ask, it's not. "You have a sense of travel in a train car," says Bauman. "In a yacht, what can you do? Go out to the horizon and turn around and come back. Here you can see America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rolling Along on the Rails | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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