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...materials and manufacturing methods, the boats themselves are inexpensive to own and operate. Some 20% of all boats are currently made of tough new plastic materials such as Fiberglas, which can be molded into any shape, impregnated with a dazzling array of colors. Today's inboard and outboard runabouts are as flashy as any Detroit automaker's creation with upswept tail fins, wrap-around windshields, foam-rubber bucket seats, airplane-type controls-and they come at bargain prices. With mass-production assembly lines, do-it-yourself boat kits, and half-finished boats that the buyer completes himself...
...cockpit, too, there was calm. Then six minutes after the trouble began, another engine-No. 4-choked to a stop. With both outboard engines out of commission, Captain Ogg knew for certain now that he could not make the 1,000 miles to San Francisco-that he would have to ditch. Rather than dump gas and risk a night landing, he decided to wait till daylight and let the plane exhaust its heavy fuel load. He so notified the Coast Guard weather-watch cutter, Pontchartrain, some comfortable ten miles to the west. Pontchartrain's skipper, Commander William K. Earle...
...release of her first recording in eleven years (Rockin' in the Rocket Room), mellowing (43) Songstress Frances Longford hove up to a Manhattan pier on the 118-ft. Chanticleer, an air-conditioned pleasure dome captained by her husband, Outboard Motor King Ralph Evinrude. On hand to greet the yachtsmen was Rockin's most conspicuous author, smilin' Cartoonist Zock Mosley, who normally writes the overage dialogue of comic-strip hero Smilin' Jack. Why had he ventured into the teenagers rock 'n' roll rhythm? Drawled well-preserved Mosley: "I'm hepper than most bobby-soxers...
...smoldering enmity hung over the capital city of Nicosia. Shops shut tight in protest; workers left jobs. Men no longer sat at cafes but lounged sullenly at the curbs; they glared and spat as young British troopers rattled past in Land Rovers, their Bren guns trained outboard...
...small delta wing with a fuselage about 30 ft. long. It now has conventional landing gear for test purposes, but is designed as a "tail sitter" (sitting on its tail on take-off). When rising or hovering in the vertical position, it probably depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near...