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...chin up at Mystic, the rest of the varsity could manage only a slightly better showing at the Ivy League championships down at Yale. In what the team considered a secondary meet, the Crimson floundered to a fourth-place finish behind the Bulldogs, Brown and a surprising Princeton fleet...
...road, Vance has so far been content to use Kissinger's back-up Boeing 707. It is less comfortable than the plane regularly used by his predecessor, which is now part of the Administration's fleet. Kissinger spent a good deal of time in the rear of the plane talking off the record to reporters, even as the jet rocketed down the runway. He would return two or three times during a trip to chat, quip, tell jokes and stories about foreign leaders or spin out grand stratagems while nibbling peanuts or candy. Vance is more reserved...
...heroin. Ceilings and floors are removed, every rivet and every cable is inspected. Engines are constantly being monitored and overhauled. The maintenance procedures are so complicated and expensive that TWA estimates it has $300 million tied up in spare parts and equipment, enough to buy a whole airline fleet not so long...
Sophomore captain Laura Brown sees good things on the horizon this year. With Princeton, last year's champion, hurt by the graduation of its star skipper, she thinks the 'Cliffe can make its move to the head of the fleet by blowing past perennial rivals Tufts and MIT. Behind Brown and "A" Division skipper Bam Mack, the women will face their first test at a New England Women's Intercollegiate Sailing Association invitational regatta at MIT tomorrow morning...
Sailors with the U.S. Sixth Fleet call it chicken of the sea. It is a seaborne version of the highway hot-rodders' "chicken" that is frequently played in the crowded Mediterranean by Soviet and American warships. Typically, a Russian vessel will dart and weave among U.S. ships, trying to frighten their skippers into turning sharply to avoid collision. These episodes usually end harmlessly-but not always...