Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that tough grind was a young Cornish schoolteacher, Geoffrey Williams, who slipped into Newport, R.I., a fortnight ago after 26 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes en route; others are still at sea. The competing Sunday Times sent four record-seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy Arctic Ocean ice from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the Spitsbergen archipelago, some 2,100 crevasse-ridden miles distant; last week the quartet was a third of the way along and having radio trouble. More lately, the Times has sponsored a nonstop, round-the-world solo sail, which Chichester calls "the Everest...
...some consolation to other blue-water yachtsman to learn that Sumner A. ("My friends call me Huey") Long, 46, suffers from seasickness. It is certainly their only consolation, because Long, a Manhattan ship broker, is the world's most successful ocean-racing skipper. Between 1960 and 1967, Long and his 57-ft. yawl Ondine logged 150,000 miles, entering 66 races that ranged in distance from 19 miles to 3,190 miles -and winning 44 of those races either outright or on corrected time. That Ondine, rechristened Severn Star, currently serves as a training boat for cadets...
...still relatively unpolluted; massive garbage disposal in it has been halted. It is still, thanks to its tributaries, a major spawning habitat for Pacific salmon, and its mud flats are a vital source of food to many fish and ocean birds. Its waters provide the Bay Area with a natural year-round air-conditioning system. All this would be destroyed if the bay were diminished. The bay's would-be protectors also point out that the nine surrounding counties encompass more than 7,000 square miles, largely undeveloped, and have no real need to expand inwardly into...
...American students. On the surface, their complaints are similar. At both Columbia and the Sorbonne, demonstrators demanded curriculums more consonant with the times, a larger role in university affairs, and the demolition of those invisible walls that convert a university into an academic hermitage. But more than an ocean and a language separate the French university student and his counterpart in the U.S. The two can hardly be measured on the same scale. French higher education, reports TIME Correspondent Judson Gooding, is an ordeal of body and spirit that has changed little over the centuries. It is still almost...
...dwells upon the ocean floor...