Word: motorboatmen
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...problems than the odor so often editorialized about on local rock 'n' roll stations. The Charles is the confused, slowly evaporating result of sporadic attempts by often conflicting interests "to do something about the river. But it is more than just a clash of private interests-- conservationists and industrialists, motorboatmen and fishermen, real estate developers, utilities, universities--that has put a strangle-hold on the Charles. In its 72-mile course, the Charles meanders through 21 cities and towns, most of which jealously guard their right to regulate that part of the river that passes through their bounds...
...Gino Macropodio, who led his 350 fellow gondoliers in their latest protest against the growing encroachment of motorized craft in Venice. The motoscafi, strikers pointed out, violate the canals' 7-m.p.h. speed limit and kick up waves that further weaken the foundations of the slowly sinking city. Some motorboatmen also violate the city ordinance limiting their working hours from midnight to 6 a.m., carry passengers and small freight afterhours in competition with gondolas...
When Stanley Sayres drove his platter-like hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV to a world record over a mile straightaway earlier this month (TIME, July 10), veteran motorboatmen were dazzled by the 160 m.p.h. speed, but they took a restrained view of what the delicate Duralumin craft might do in racing competition. Over the bending Detroit River course of the Gold Cup race last week, Slo-Mo-Shun IV proved she was all right at that...
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