Word: marinae
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...voyage on the Port Washington, L.I.-Wall Streen run. Departure time: 8:20 a.m. She was laden with suburban-dwelling executives, plus a tape recorder, individual transistor radios, an electric shaver, ship-to-shore telephone, champagne and high hopes. But on the planned 50-minute trip from Club Capri Marina to lower Manhatten, virtually nothing went right...
...since a Yank vaulted the net at Wimbledon, and Texas' Chuck McKinley, 22, could be pardoned if his form looked a little rusty. But he cleared it with inches to spare. Then, with a wild whoop of joy, he hippety-hopped up to the royal box, where Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, handed him the silver trophy that goes to the winner of the All-England tennis championships - the world's most important tennis tournament...
...lively respect for the perils of the deep and an awareness that the mariner's world required special skills and knowledge. Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina, while the outboard motor has evolved from a poky put-put to a roaring, soaring substitute for a jet fighter plane. The result is a whole new set of perils of the surface...
...Dying. Her hiveness, the heroine of the film, is a blonde humdinger named Marina Vlady, whose performance won her a golden palm at this year's Cannes Festival even though her lines were dubbed in by someone else. Words were unimportant. As the young bride of a fellow twice her age, she spends most of the picture nude between the sheets. She has married him not for his honey but because her own family has no male heir. Her vigor and tenacity in attempting to conceive would be enough to debilitate the entire United States Marine Corps, let alone...
Technology & Cotton Candy. Fly-ins are the gregarious side of private flying. A fly-in may be a bunch of well-heeled bank managers, admen, lawyers and the like, assembling for a weekend on Blakely Island, the de luxe air marina just off the northwest coast of Washington. It may be an informal handful of farmers and construction men setting down by a lakeside for a Sunday cookout. Or it may be a highly organized annual institution, with hundreds of planes zooming in for an elaborate program of exhibits and special events...