Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace. A few hours later, at a nuclear submarine keel-laying in nearby Groton. Conn., Johnson was the Great Peace Seeker, warning against the rash use of military might. In an obvious crack at his probable November opponent, Barry Goldwater, Johnson said: "Those who would answer every problem with nuclear weapons display not bravery but bravado, not wisdom but a wanton disregard for the survival of the world and the future of the race...
...showed off the first scale model of its TFX adjustable-wing plane, for which orders may reach as high as $8 billion in the next five years, and in Washington the company was awarded a $237 million contract to build the Centaur mooncraft. In Quincy, Mass., it laid the keel for the first vessel-an attack submarine-that it will build in the shipyard it bought last January from Bethlehem Steel. In Groton, Conn., General Dynamics launched its first civilian submarine, a research sub for the University of Pennsylvania. It also broke ground for a lime-processing plant in Detroit...
Veterans & Families. Then there is Nefertiti, which narrowly lost out to Weatherly last time and has undergone extensive face lifting. "Among other things, we've made the keel finer to offer less resistance," says Skipper Ted Hood, 37. "She ought to be as effective in heavy air as she was in '62 and a good deal better in light air." Columbia, the 1958 victor, will be on hand with the first West Coast crew ever to take a crack at Cup competition. Cornelius Shields has sold her to California Yachtsman Thomas Patrick Dougan, and her new skipper will...
...Stookey, Dave Gants, and Tim Prince co-skippered the Crimson to first place in the Fish class. Against seven other schools the team performed consistently and finished with 1-2-4-3-3-3-3 placings. Florida State was second and St. Petersburg Junior College third. The graff-rigged keel sloops posed quite a problem for the sailors, whose experience has been mostly center-board cat boats...
...intercollegiate race in the country, and provides the only opportunity for the team to compete in anything larger than dinghies. Harvard has finished a close second in each of the last three years, but only at the cost of dismasting one of the Navy's yawls, and cracking the keel of another...