Word: kayak
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...either tour a gold-painted geodesic dome meant to symbolize a nugget, or else pan gold themselves, sourdough-fashion, in chutes from the Chena River; sip cocktails in the "Wheelhouse," a VIP lounge on the superstructure of the old Alaskan stern-wheeler Nenana; view an aboriginal village with Eskimo kayak rides and a Tlingit totem-pole carver at work; or ogle the cancan dancers from an authentic gold-rush...
...place is full of dangerous rocks and swirling eddies; so naturally every time a guide stood up to see what lay ahead, some fun-loving Kennedy would push him overboard. The children organized rattlesnake hunts, and good old Bobby insisted on negotiating most of the run alone in a kayak. But Expedition Leader Don Hatch insisted it was a piece of cake. "The biggest problem," he said, "was keeping Ethel's wig box right side up through the rapids...
...that was long ago, before the two-car family. If the settlers hadn't tried to kill off all the Indians, the U.S. might have done better in canoeing. As it was, a Swede who paddled 3,000 weary kilometers in practice won the 1,000-meter kayak race by 15/100 of a second. In gymnastics, Americans who cheat on pushups could only gape in astonishment as the incredibly graceful Russian girls danced off with the women's-team championship, and Japan's Yukio Endo, 27-poised on the parallel bars as if cast in steel-scored...
Marcia Jones took third in women's kayak singles, and Gloria Perrier and Francine Fox were second in doubles for the two U.S. medals...
...Checkpoint Charlie two guards, screened momentarily by a tourist bus crossing from the West, stepped smilingly over the white dividing line. On the River Elbe a 50-year-old boatman packed his wife and three children into a stolen motor launch, put-putted to freedom. Two men rowed a kayak across the Baltic to Denmark. The 20-year-old stepdaughter of an East German army colonel slipped through barbed wire south of the Wall, reported that East German youth is now more interested in acquiring blue jeans than party medals...