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Cutting the Knot. Boyd faces a formidable task. He will attempt to unscramble the world's biggest, most bitterly competitive transportation complex, a Gordian knot of railroads (214,650 miles), airline routes (280,696 miles), and highways (3,600,000 miles). To cut the knot, Boyd's department aims to coordinate the responsibilities of 31 federal agencies. With 91,000 employees and a $5.5 billion budget, he will run the Government's fifth-largest department...
...Navy." Its officers and men are recognizable from afar by their luxuriant beards and deep suntans, and the approach of their elderly craft can be detected by the clatter of chipping hammers pecking away at rusty decks. The ships themselves have high, unsheered bows and an ungainly 12-knot waddle, while the most advanced piece of electronic gear aboard any of them is a popcorn machine. Yet Inshore Fire Support Division 93, as McCoy's Navy is known officially, is one of the most valuable units in the South China Sea. It serves as the seagoing artillery...
...keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives the Cal-40 an almost prohibitively high rating of at least 31.1 for a 40-ft. boat. Theoretically she ought to be five feet longer, and she ought to lose. Thing is, she wins...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). When eminent public servants begin performing acts of treason, sophisticated Spies John Steed and Emma Peel are sent in to tie a knot in the mastermind-bending plot...
...Actors James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg rose from tenderfoot; so did the latest Gemini spacemen, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General William Westmoreland are old Eagle Scouts, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk was once knot-tying champion of the Atlanta Council...