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...Minutes to Swim. On race day, a 20-knot crosswind was kicking up 10-ft. swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered...
...police wagon and a small truck drove up to the back door of a Moscow courthouse last week, avoiding the knot of students, the Western newsmen, and the two tearful wives who were waiting at the front. Into the vehicles were bundled Authors Daniel Sinyavsky, 40, and Yuli Daniel, 40, who were then whisked off to start serving terms of seven and five years, respectively, in forced-labor colonies. As expected, Sinyavsky and Daniel had been found guilty in a stacked trial of "maliciously slandering" Russia in their stories-some of which, oddly enough, concern writers serving terms in forced...
...Stream. The lethal edge of the storm was a savage 50-60 knot gale. In rural Maryland, gusts blew a rescue helicopter to the ground, killing the pilot, after an attempt to airlift an expectant mother to a hospital. (Mother and baby survived.) In central New York, two people were found dead in their car 300 ft. from the warm refuge of a house that they could not even see in the white glare...
...Weather Bureau meteorologist blamed the blizzard on an aberration in the jet stream, the 60-200 knot current that blows from west to east at a height of 30,000 to 40,000 ft. Normally, during the winter, the stream heads out to sea around the latitude of Philadelphia, serves as a buffer between arctic cold and warm, moist southern air. This year, as if answering an airlines commercial, the stream headed on down to Jacksonville before departing the U.S., and allowed the arctic air to freeze the moisture-laden southern front on its way north. The result was already...
...half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts can do the whole job in 15 sec. or less), and it requires exquisite teamwork between the cowpoke and his mount (Will Rogers once remarked that a good roper owes 75% of his success to his horse). Rodeo ropers pay as much...