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Gwyn Harries-Jenkins, a lecturer at Hull University in eastern England assigned to conduct the survey, said be felt senior officers would oppose unionization. He said officers think unions undermine discipline and reduce fighting effectiveness...
...Thor Heyerdahl may face on his new voyage because his reed boat will not show up on radar screens [Nov. 28]. It could be made to appear as big as a destroyer on radar screens by simply wrapping a roll of aluminum foil around each of those beautifully crafted hull points used only for aesthetic purposes. The foil could be laid beneath the outer covering of reed to preserve the "purist" intent of Tigris...
...metric tons (33 tons) of reeds gathered from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with a large squarish sail and twelve wooden oars, each of them 6 meters (20 ft.) long...
...Charles, breezing along past the Boston skyline, the only sounds you hear are the flapping of the canvas sails and the constant slap-slap-slap of water on the hull. Sailboats, after all, are very quiet vehicles. As a rule, so are the people who sail them--no one, for instance, has ever accused the Harvard sailing team of dominating the sports pages of any local newspaper. But the Crimson squad, in its own unobtrusive way, has been making a lot of noise...
...JUSTICE DEPARTMENT had come to regard the Richard Helms affair with all the warmth that a ship's captain reserves for a school of barnacles firmly attached to a vessel's hull: a nuisance--if a major one--that would pop into public view every so often, only to submerge once again below the Koreagate and Bert Lance headlines...