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...atmosphere at the WoodenBoat School is relaxed. Students spend their after-class hours playing softball and drinking enough beer to float a schooner. But before that, they put in solid workdays in a shop redolent with the smell of fresh-cut cedar. Students pick up their tools by 8 each morning and, except for an hour-long lunch break, do not put them away until after 4 each afternoon. No one complains about the hours. "I love it; it gives me such a sense of satisfaction," says Cullen. "When I fitted my first plank, I felt like singing the Marseillaise...
Mike Heath, at 19 one of the bright new hopes of the U.S. team, swam his 200 meters in front of the pack and beat his West German opponent by a body length. David Larson gave almost a second body length to Jeff Float, another boycott veteran, swimming his last race for the team. Float gave back a little, but when Bruce Hayes hit the water for the final leg, he had a length and a half on the Albatross. Remarkably, Gross had made up almost all of it by the end of the first 50 meters. Hayes kept...
...heroism in the Games is lightweight; it bears none of the mythic armor of professional sports. With professional athletes, allegories develop with the records; Mantle was pain, Unitas skill, Ali poetry and power. The Olympic Games are too brief for spectators to construct a folklore. Personalities like Nadia float to the top for a few days, but only as they are attached to performances. The hero and the act are one. If an allegorical hero is to be found in the Games, it is youth in general. A time of life is held still. For two weeks nothing ages...
Rosen said steps had been taken to alleviate the overheating, including additional insulation and the placement of fans in the basement to blow the steam out into halls instead of allowing it to float up. Rosen said he expected the insulation to be completed within a week...
Swallows swooped in the bright sky. "Henry Jackson [knew] that America could not and must not attempt to float along alone, a blissful island of democracy in a sea of totalitarianism," said Reagan. Take note, voters, that the Democrats have just drafted a platform that has strong withdrawal symptoms. "And it was very much like Scoop to see that there was a growing problem in Central America," declared Reagan. Think again, you doubting souls who voted last week to end CIA help for Nicaraguan contras. "Scoop used to say, 'In matters of national security, the best politics...