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...cozy all the way. Geib stayed to leeward of the sloop Rangoon, took warning when squalls hit her and she heeled over, had ample time to douse his own spinnaker. Never for a moment did he really stop racing. With his light hull and yawl rig, Nick Geib could hoist plenty of canvas, and the race was a spinnaker run most of the way. He never hesitated to use that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever the wind shifted a few degrees. Geib jibed, kept running dead before...
Industry First. The visitors found that the biggest shortcoming in Soviet building is its overbalance. Top priority traditionally has gone to industrial construction, with badly needed housing a poor second. The Russians have leaned heavily on prefabricated building sections to offset the shortage of skilled labor, hoist them into place with eight-to ten-story-high cranes. Cracked one delegation member: "Anyone who calls it the Iron Curtain is outdated. It's the Concrete Curtain. Brother, do they pour concrete...
Revival Meeting. His own way was not the usual way. He invaded interior villages in an armored car, often accom panied by a troupe of dancing girls. Selecting a central site, he would hoist his 6-ft.-1-in., 200-lb.-plus frame onto a platform and deliver a fatherly lecture to the assembled villagers. His message: Communists are your enemies; report them instead of supporting them. (Said an aborigine leader: "Such a big man. Such a big voice. No wonder he is Sultan.") Some times the Sultan asked Communists in the crowd to step forward, like a revivalist calling...
...visit to the 155-year-old Georgetown home of Mrs. McCook Knox set up even more barriers. Ramps had to be built to pull a camera off the street after the show got under way. A seven-story crane was moved into place to hoist a "cup" for relaying the TV signal out of the valley-like terrain of Georgetown. Just 45 minutes before show time, the Fire Department refused to let Morgan pull the switches on the TV equipment because it might overload the electrical circuits. Somebody talked the fire inspectors into going away while the technicians figured...
...often uses "very slipshod methods" in selecting a wife. "The eligible-bachelor farmer falls victim of a moonlight night, or a dulcet voice, or a sniff of My Sin, never giving a thought as to whether or not the creature in his arms can strip a cow dry or hoist the back end of a wagon . . . Farmers don't usually fall in love with the deep-bosomed, wide-hipped, somewhat unimaginative women who make the best farm wives...