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More than 30 Gloucester skippers and their crews have been unable to work since early July. Dozens more, perhaps as much as a third of Gloucester's 160-boat commercial fishing fleet, once one of the nation's primary providers of fresh fish, could find themselves idle before summer gives way to fall...
Some Gloucestermen bitterly blame their plight on the insurance companies, whom they perceive as greedy and heartless. But many concede that the premium jumps are justified. "In a way," says Joseph Giacalone, 52, whose 74-ft. St. Peter, built in 1927, is one of the oldest boats in the fleet, "I guess you could say that the fishermen, or at least some of them, brought this on themselves...
...There were 509 passengers aboard the 747SR, a short-range version of the jumbo. JAL and All Nippon Airways are the only airlines that fly this model, which is structurally strengthened to absorb the jolts of the frequent takeoffs and landings required by shorter routes. As part of its fleet of 49 747s, the largest of any carrier in the world, JAL operated ten of the short-range types, which can accommodate more seats. The flight to Osaka (pop. 2,625,000), a commercial center 250 miles southwest of Tokyo, was sold...
Their return to fleet racing broke the team out of fall doldrums in time for top finishes in the Atlantic Coast Championships—second for the men, and, thanks in part to poor travel luck, sixth for the women...
...have room for inconsistency. Nor, for that matter, did the team demonstrate that it wasn’t up to the task. In a flurry of top finishes, Harvard qualified for all three national championship regattas, as the women’s team won the New England fleet-racing championship and the co-eds finished second in fleet racing and third in team racing. Regional honors followed almost immediately, as the team accrued a total of six All-New England mentions, four on the women’s team...