Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game is played out nightly in the inlets and beaches of Florida's 1,200-mile coastline, along back-country roads and at dirt airstrips. Fishermen churning home to Miami through the Cape Florida channel may be startled to find a white Customs launch bearing down on them. Blue-shirted men with bolstered revolvers play a high-intensity beam through cabins and scan decks with night-vision goggles. Near by on the Miami River, other officers crouch in a thicket of weeds, training binoculars on a rusting banana boat, watching for seamen debarking with suspicious packages. To the south...
...Feds boast more than 100 boats, but the fastest Coast Guard launch will travel only 28 m.p.h. The smugglers' sleek ocean racers, stripped of galleys and bunks for greater capacity, can do 50 m.p.h. fully loaded. "We are outmanned and outrun," says Coast Guard Commander John Ikens. "They have more money than...
Between acts in Monte Carlo, Her Serene Highness Princess Grace is serenely back on the boards in the U.S. for her first American stage appearance since 1952. This time Grace, 48, is helping launch International Wildlife Year by giving a six-city series of poetry readings entitled Birds, Beasts and Flowers-with box office receipts going to various charities. Along with her costar, British Actor Richard Pasco, Grace gave her first reading in Pittsburgh and had a tough time making the Kelly pipes project. For her next number after the poetry reading, Grace will oversee the June nuptials of Daughter...
...pilots who glide at Point Fermin launch themselves by running down the gentle slope that leads to the cliff edge, but long before they reach it, they are airborne. They head out over the water, lose altitude, and circle back to the beach, making long figure eights parallel to the cliffs, riding the natural updrafts that blow steadily from the sea. When they are ready to land they spiral up in the breeze to the cliff edge, turn towards it, and touch down...
...what members call an effort to revive its involvement with the local community, the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center today will launch a program that calls for Harvard students to work with Cambridge public-school children...