Word: motorboater
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...asks to be called at 5 a.m., and again at 5:30, "just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat, headed for the Jack Spot, a ten-square-mile expanse of shoal water with one simple claim to fame: there, each summer, congregates the densest concentration of white marlin in the world...
...came to the throne after his father's death three weeks ago. During the election campaign, the Afro-Shirazis hinted that if the African party won, his reign might be short. The worried Seyyid Jamshid was said to be ready to abdicate and earn a living running a motorboat service for tourists. With his allies of the Arab Nationalist Party still in control, the Sultan was spared that grim necessity. But the country at large is wondering what will happen between the two feuding factions when the British troops pull out. To preserve the peace then might be quite...
...miles) in one hour and he has won the Grand Prix des Nations, a kind of World Series of bike racing, seven times. The sport pays him $150,000 a year, and he lives in champagne luxury-beautiful blonde wife, country house near Rouen, Mercedes sports car, outboard motorboat for weekend cruises on the Seine. Success, in fact, has so spoiled Anquetil that he tried to beg out of this month's Tour de France. "My morale is no good," he said. Ah, ha! cried sportswriters, who decided that Anquetil was finally over the hill. Oh no! cried...
...destined for the Navy. Son of a Brooklyn real estate man, Anderson developed a childhood love of the sea while running an outboard motorboat in the waters off Long Island's South Shore. A bright kid, he zipped through a Jesuit high in fast time, graduated at 16. When he heard that Manhattan Congressman Ogden Mills had a couple of Naval Academy billets at his disposal, Anderson wrote a persuasive letter requesting an appointment. Mills, who did not represent Anderson's district, wired back: Establish residence in Manhattan and the appointment is yours. Anderson did so, entered...
...have no radar, but we have guts," said a member of a small group of anti-Castro exiles who call themselves Alpha 66. A few days later, a 36-ft. grey and white motorboat slipped through the predawn darkness into the north coast Cuban port of Caibarién, 210 miles southeast of Havana. Navigating by compass, the launch found its way to the San Pascual, an old Cuban steamer grounded on a concrete base and used as a molasses storehouse. A machine gun chattered, and a burst of .50-caliber slugs ripped into the cabin; an explosion split...