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...left the race to Mono. Lou III, another 32-ft. Maritime powered by twin 427-h.p. MerCruisers and piloted by Florida's Odell Lewis, 34, who used to wrestle alligators for sport until it got too tame. Bounding along at an average 50 m.p.h., he finished in 12 hr. 36 min. 20 sec., just as darkness closed in on Grand Bahama. "I ain't afraid of alligators," he said, "but nothing is going to keep me out there on that ocean after dark...
...Mary's shortest Atlantic crossing was a record three days, 20 hr. 42 min., since surpassed by the S.S. United States' three days, 10 hr...
After brief debate one hot August afternoon last year, the House voted 393 to 1 for a bill making it a federal felony to knowingly destroy or mutilate a draft card. HR 10306, which the Senate passed by a voice vote, was aimed at what its proponents described as "beatniks and so-called 'campus cults,' " meaning anyone who burns his draft card to protest U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Penalty: five years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine or both...
...HR 4671 is a bill now in the House Rules Committee which would provide water for the parched Southwest. In order to finance the project, the bill includes plans for construction, of two dams--one upstream from the Grand Canyon and one downstream--to provide hydroelectric power...
Arizona can sell the power, to help pay for the other parts of HR 4671. The Bureau of Reclamation has called the dams a "cash-register project...