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Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Championship motorboat races, inboard and outboard, from Pitcon...
...building at its Pompano Beach (Fla.) headquarters a $250,000 laboratory to evaluate the data it gathers in ocean-testing its new models. Chris-Craft engineers are experimenting with jet engines for boats. They are also testing a new "outmount" drive unit that combines the best features of an inboard engine (lower center of gravity, less fuel consumption) with the good points of an outboard (the drive shaft kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, can be raised for beaching and loading aboard a trailer...
...same waters, was a 16-ft. home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat,'' said its owner. "This engine was souped up until it can't be no more without blowing up." Near by cruised a soft, inboard on whose stern was mounted a mink-lined doghouse, home for the pink toy poodle of its master's pink-haired wife...
...messages to Tokyo." In that stream was included information about the number and type of ships at Pearl Harbor, local defenses, location of fuel dumps, disposition of ships. He noted, among many other things, that U.S. battleships were often moored in pairs; this indicated that torpedo attacks against the inboard ships would be ineffectual. That report, he says, "caused a strong emphasis on dive-bombing with specially built bombs evolved from 16-in. armor-piercing shells...
...Bayhead Skiffs' 30-ft. Caribbean sports express. It has a hot-water shower, two electric refrigerators, a built-in rotisserie in its all-electric kitchen. Price: $28,000. But the biggest attention grabbers at the show were the new jet motorboats. Buehler Turbocraft exhibited a 16-ft. inboard (price: $3,450), powered by a jet engine. It draws in water through intakes amidships, forces it out at the stern, drives the boat up to 38 m.p.h. in as little as three inches of water...