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Outrage is exactly what the strange craft was intended to provoke. The stunt of putting an outboard motor in a gondola was perpetrated by 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...
Other gondoliers installed outboard motors in their craft and set off at high speed down the waterways. The absurd anachronisms, trumpeting through the muddy canals, finally stirred action as well as municipal nostalgia: Venice authorities agreed to enforce restrictions on motorboats. Victorious, the gondoliers threw out the motors, grabbed their oars, and lazed back at the boats' sterns, safe and somnolent and-temporarily, at least-kings again...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Championship motorboat races, inboard and outboard, from Pitcon...
...gathers in ocean-testing its new models. Chris-Craft engineers are experimenting with jet engines for boats. They are also testing a new "outmount" drive unit that combines the best features of an inboard engine (lower center of gravity, less fuel consumption) with the good points of an outboard (the drive shaft kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, can be raised for beaching and loading aboard a trailer...
...Bishop Ryan's duty to cover all of his enormous diocese every five years, and 210,000 square miles takes a lot of traveling, mostly by outboard motor and usually alone. On these trips he catches his own fish and can even make a fire by rubbing two sticks together, "provided that one of the sticks is a match." Under him, 25 Franciscan priests, all Americans, and seven lay brothers administer churches in ten principal centers, plus 130 chapels, and 250 small settlements where the Christian community is served by a local girl, who says her rosary aloud...