Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco, she will put virtually her entire collection of Bing-a-brac on the block. Included is Bing's first recording, I've Got the Girl, made in 1926 with Don Clark and his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra. Also up for bids: Bing's fishing gear (fish too, sold separately), the Crosby family Bible and most of his trophies and awards, from a plastic "The World's Best Dad" loving cup from Son Nathaniel to his platinum record for Silent Night. Says Kathryn: "This will allow some other people the opportunity to polish them...
Harvard's offense failed to get in gear until the sixth inning in the first game allowing the Big Red to accumulate a six-run lead off starter Doyle, who dropped to 3-3 for the year. Freshman third baseman Elliot Rivera didn't help Harvard's cause committing two costly errors, including a miscue on the opening play of the game...
Approaching the island after dawn, the intrepid hams quickly discovered that the Coast Guard's warning had been apt. The wire ladder was there, all right, but the backwash was violent. Transporting gear, including 50 boxes of electronic equipment, three rotatable-beam antennas, two gasoline-powered generators weighing about 150 Ibs. each, plus assorted 20-ft.-long steel pipes, bamboo poles, 250-lb. gasoline drums, kegs of drinking water and a week's food supply, looked impossible. Just getting to the swaying ladder seemed daunting enough...
...gruff leader was unfazed. John Ackley (call sign: KP2A) had made a fortune by selling his New Jersey computer firm in 1976, then founded the tax-exempt International DX Foundation to promote worldwide good will by sponsoring such DXpeditions. His foundation had supplied all of the radio gear, while the trip's cost (more than $10,000) was split among the nine operators. Ackley set off with two crewmen in a 12-ft. dinghy, powered by a 25-h.p. outboard motor. One crewman skillfully maneuvered the tiny craft through the heavy seas to put Ackley at the ladder...
...everywhere Reagan pauses even for a few minutes. In the process, says one White House aide, "they basically redid the Barbados phone system" and left it far more sophisticated than before. The aide explains that "it was too expensive to haul a lot of the equipment out," so the gear was simply turned over to the islanders...