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...Peking throbbed with the fever of crisis. A sea of demonstrators jammed the streets carrying red banners and pictures of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Mao himself turned up briefly at one rally and was greeted by the singing of the nation's newest hit, We Rely on the Helmsman When We Sail the Ocean. After he left, crowds rushed forward to try to shake the hands of those who had shaken hands with...
Compassionate Helmsman. In an earlier but more dramatic confrontation at Amherst, McNamara, having heard rumors of impending protest, met 500 students and faculty before the commencement ceremonies, quipping, "I am told that this question session is a requirement to get an honorary degree at Amherst." He coolly answered sharp but politely put questions for more than an hour. When a student told him that some seniors would wear white arm bands and walk out to protest his honorary degree, McNamara said he respected their position because "I don't think we want to deny the freedom here that...
...reasoning that the buyers' basic impulse was to get away from it all, at a minimum expense. But in the past five years, more and more people have more and more money, and price no longer seems an object. Furthermore, the little woman has become a backseat helmsman, and she demands all the comforts of home...
...toward Punta del Este, Stormvogel quickly sailed into the lead. Within a day, all her competitors were hull down on the horizon. Ondine had disappeared entirely. "We kept getting position reports on the other ships by radio-all the ships but Ondine, that is," said Stormvogel's Helmsman John Miles. "We thought obviously that she must be so far astern we just couldn't pick...
Forward & Backward. Aboard Stormvogel, everything was serene. Radio reports had her well in the lead with only 300 miles to Rio; another 48 hours should see her across the finish line. Then Stormvogel hit a calm. "There were no winds at all during the day," said Helmsman Miles, "and at night the northeaster blew up to 25 or 30 knots. Then there was that current, coming right at us. Two of my fixes actually showed we were going backward...