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Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...
...Hubert Humphrey smashed a champagne bottle against the flag-draped hull, and the 425-ft. U.S.S. Will Rogers slid down the ways into the Thames River. Thus the 41st-and last -nuclear-powered Polaris missile submarine was launched last week in the General Dynamics Corporation's yards at Groton, Conn. For the U.S., it marked the end of a historically successful effort to develop seapower able to strike any target on earth...
...water and weather, is the only thing the Cal-40 was designed for. Most ocean racers are at best compromises, partly designed for speed and partly for family cruising. The Cal-40s are all business: short on finery, heavy on sail and with a light (15,500 Ibs.) hull that thumbs its nose at the intricate rites of rating-the official formula that calculates waterline length against sail area to determine the boat's racing handicap. Ordinarily a designer slaves to achieve the lowest possible rating, thus the highest handicap. Designer Bill Lap-worth, 46, who had been teaming...
...course, no blue-water yachtsman is completely happy unless he can find something to grouse about. "She's noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...
...years, along the course of a newspaper career that carried him to the copy desk of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Robert Manry nourished a secret dream. In 1958 he paid $160 for a sailing hull rotted by age and neglect. Repaired, refitted and baptized on fresh-water shakedown cruises, Tinkerbelle slipped her moorings at Falmouth, Mass., on June 1, 1965. Seventy-eight days and 3,200 miles later, the 13½-ft. sloop touched shore in Falmouth, England, the smallest sailing craft ever known to have crossed the Atlantic...