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...record $2.1 billion on boating in 1958, and the nation's fun fleet grew to 7,330,000 boats-one for every seven families. With the number of active U.S. yachtsmen expanding by 2,000,000 a year (total: 37 million), the industry expects a 10% rise in outboard sales in 1959, similar gains for inboard powerboats and sailing craft...
...occupy most of his time, though Baar relieves the routine by reading farm magazines, working with livestock, playing with German Shepherd dogs that he is breeding as future Seeing Eye dogs for blind patients. Sometimes he paddles in the sea in a native canoe or chugs by outboard motorboat to nearby Talampulan, where he can talk to the 13 U.S. coast guardsmen stationed there. When Christmas comes, Baar will spend the day at Talampulan, for he feels that he will be better prepared to carry on his lonely life if he can be with Americans on that...
...among common market countries, European economists expect them eventually to level out-as they have already started to in the European coal and steel nations. In view of this, smart companies are already picking plant sites on the basis of the best, not the cheapest, labor. Chicago's Outboard Marine, for example, decided to establish a plant in Bruges, Belgium, where wages are now relatively high, because it found that Belgians work better and produce more than workers in other areas it considered...
...business by denying them cards; 2) to harness sadhu selflessness for the social betterment of India. The pilot plant at Rishikesh, run by the Indian Association of Sadhus, is a complex of one-story concrete-and-brick buildings equipped with such unascetic features as electric lights, telephones, and outboard motor dinghies to ferry sadhus and supplies across the river. Fifty holy men from all over the country are spending a month there studying political philosophy, social service and hygiene, as well as the principles of Hinduism. Yoga exercises are also on the curriculum-not as a means to spiritual perfection...
...dark Texas skies, Air Force Lieut. James Edward Obenauf made a split-second, life-and-death decision. Around him, his six-jet B-47* seemed to be falling apart: the right outboard engine was boiling with flame, scattering red-hot pieces of steel across the wing and fuselage. The navigator had bailed out of the nose compartment; so had the pilot. Copilot Obenauf, squeezing along the catwalk toward the nose, was ready to jump too. He looked down and froze: there, lying unconscious, his oxygen equipment disconnected, his chute pack gone, was the navigator-instructor, Major Joseph B. Maxwell...