Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Island Sound racing their 19-ft. Lightning-class sloops. For all of them, the weekend on the water was the same mixture of work and editorial play that keeps them glued to their jobs despite the lure of better pay elsewhere. Their magazine: Yachting (circ. 45,675), a salty log for U.S. pleasure sailors...
Cockpit Listener. North American Aviation, Inc. has developed a tape recorder no larger than a portable typewriter, which can log the conversation of a plane's crew for ten hours, and at the same time keep a running record of pressure, altitude, vertical acceleration, air speed, direction (taken from the plane's instruments), and communications from the ground. Called the Nadar, it is fire-and crashproof...
...disease. He had a close brush with a jaguar, but never, so far as he records, was bitten by a snake. Though often shot at, Fawcett was never hit by the 6-ft. poisoned arrows of the forest people; and once, when he and his mule fell off a log bridge into a rushing stream, he escaped, almost miraculously, without a scratch...
Then there is the tale of Charlie Rheault, who, after long practice, streaked to Arsenal and back in 29 minutes 59.9 seconds on June 1, 1950. After the test, Rheault wrote in the Club log...
...spying, did his irascible best to have him hanged. A court-martial saved Knox from the gallows, but he was banned from Sherman's command with a personal warning from the general that if he showed his face again, he would go "down the Mississippi floating on a log...