Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OCEAN RACING...
...Monaco was a dice with disaster, the Bahamas 500 ocean powerboat race last week turned into what one contestant aptly termed "a demolition derby." The general idea of ocean powerboat racing is to take a boat out into the deep, open her up to 50-60 m.p.h., and pray. The Bahamas 500 was designed as the granddaddy of them all-a 512-mi. circle around the islands from Grand Bahama, and all for $50,000 in prize money. It should have been $1,000,000, considering the carnage...
...until it got too tame. Bounding along at an average 50 m.p.h., he finished in 12 hr. 36 min. 20 sec., just as darkness closed in on Grand Bahama. "I ain't afraid of alligators," he said, "but nothing is going to keep me out there on that ocean after dark...
...ship's radio instructed Captain Joseph E. Woolfenden to open a sealed envelope he had received before sailing from Southampton. Woolfenden was stunned by what he read. At that moment, the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. was announcing in London that the world's two largest ocean liners would be retired-the Queen Elizabeth within 18 months, the older Queen Mary as early as next October...
...place in the heat-and humidity-controlled museum, and all hands were sufficiently recovered to toast the new exhibition (in champagne) at its opening reception. Said Montreal Art Professor Edwy Cooke, another member of the committee: "We wanted it to be the most important show ever to cross the ocean, the best arts show ever in North America, and we succeeded. When I look at it, it's just too good to be true...