Word: hydrofoil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, is engaged in a political struggle with the Democratic-controlled legislature. The N.E.A. is locked in combat with the American Federation of Teachers for the loyalty of the nation's restive teachers. Its fight is well-organized and well-financed. Association officers traveled by hydrofoil to a meeting in Miami's Marine Stadium; a Lear Jet was chartered for two days for more than...
...unhurried tourist, there are trips by steamer, excursion boat or hydrofoil on the Volga and Don rivers from Kazan to Volgograd to Rostovon-Don, along the Dnieper from Kiev to Kherson, up the Neva from Leningrad to Petrodvorets. For the most part, tourists report that the equipment is modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke...
...wired into a central computer, which Foy must share with up to 350 other users. For five hours each month, at a rental of $160 monthly, he can type problems into the machine and get instant solutions. Besides using it in his work and to help design his own hydrofoil boat, Foy will rent out computer time to his two grade-school children to assist them with homework. For each three minutes of computer time, Daddy will dock their allowances...
...Navy "surface effect ship" that is actually a giant high-speed hydrofoil capable of a speed of 120 knots and able to cross the Atlantic from New York in 35 hours, reach Viet Nam from San Francisco in 72 hours. Powered by gas and turbine engines and traveling on cushions of air, the ship could quickly transport troops to trouble spots, be adapted as a high-speed aircraft carrier or as a moving platform for deploying anti-missile missiles and ICBM batteries at sea. Though the program is still in the model stage, the Navy believes that it can have...
Before an army of Arabs rides to the rescue by horse and hydrofoil, Modesty unreels a few reasonably sturdy gags in the midst of its chichi nonsense. The zaniest occurs early on when Bogarde's henchmen torture Monica with a piece of mobile sculpture. In a movie so given to self-conscious giggles, even the fine art of manhandling takes a peculiar turn...