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...into the Sierras, following a single-lane trail that winds endlessly along 9,000-ft. precipices. Finally, the traveler arrives at Florence Lake, and there is Karl, smiling nervously, waiting in rumpled cowboy clothes, wearing a three-day beard and smelling of horses. He helps you into his aluminum outboard motorboat and you putter to the other end of the lake. There you mount a horse, and three hours later, after climbing mountains and slogging through countless streams and upland bogs, you reach Karl's ranch...
...readers flicked through last week's issue of the French magazine L'Express, more than a few did double takes. The familiar portly figure peering out from a full-page ad for Brunswick Corp.'s Mercury outboard motors seemed strangely out of place...
...President Georges Pompidou -in a year-old news photo taken off the coast of Brittany-seated in the stern of a small boat, right next to a 110-h.p. Mercury outboard. "It's for your safety, Mr. President," ran the message below. "We'd be telling tales if we claimed our only concern is your safety. It's important and even dear to us. But-and you'll understand-so is that of all the faithful users of our black engines...
...jammed when a late-arriving passenger interrupted its automatic closing cycle, and mechanics had to labor for half an hour to reset the system. The 747 was taxiing away from the terminal when a sudden gust of wind blew directly in the exhaust vent of the right outboard engine, causing the fuel to flare up and overheat the engine. The plane had to be brought back to the terminal, and Pan Am rushed to roll out its only other service-ready 747 to take over the flight. "It's marvelous," said Mrs. David Susskind, wife of the TV producer...
...races, last week's Outboard World Championship was the biggest, richest and roughest in history. The eight-hour marathon had 111 drivers fighting for $50,000 in prize money, much of it put up by Havasu's developer, Oilman Robert McCulloch. Between them, Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer Mercury had no fewer than 40 boats in the field. By the end of the race, most of the craft were fit only for beach-party kindling. Within the first two hours, gusty 20-m.p.h. winds caused at least a dozen boats to flip into spray-spewing somersaults; others slammed sickeningly...