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...those who want to go right over the side, there are water skis and more than enough power to pull them. Even River Queen's houseboat is equipped with twin engines, which push the poky hull up to 30 m.p.h. Buehler Corp. exhibits its Bolero with water-jet propulsion that can make 44 m.p.h. Even closer to being airborne is Water Spyder Marine Ltd.'s first hydrofoil pleasure craft. Twelve feet overall and priced at $970, it can ride up onto its foils in seconds, tow a skier at close to 40 m.p.h...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Houseboat, one of the few good films Sophia Loren ever made in Hollywood, perhaps because Old Smoothie Cary Grant is aboard...
...Twelve Americans were among the 42 persons killed in the terrorist bombing of the fashionable My Canh (Beautiful Scenery) restaurant, actually a converted houseboat anchored near a Saigon River bank. The force of the blast hurled diners through plate-glass windows, left the decks of the vessel awash with blood and strewn with bod ies. In an agony of grief, a Vietnamese man held up the dead body of his little boy, begged photographers to picture...
...political use differed widely from Stratton's. The prosecution recalled that Stratton built a $63,000 lodge overlooking the Sangamon River, spent $5,000 remodeling his family home. The defense countered that both lodge and family home were used for official entertainment. There was also a $4,750 houseboat that Stratton kept moored near the lodge. But Witness Fasseas testified that he and nine other Republicans bought the boat for Stratton as a birthday present and, besides, "meetings were going on constantly" aboard it-once a state Supreme Court justice fell overboard and had to be fished...
...BAILEYS OF BALBOA (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation comedy about a poor family living on a houseboat in the luxury Balboa Yacht Basin-a kind of Beverly Hillbillies afloat-starring Paul Ford as Papa Bailey. Premi...