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...experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer in Ceylon, a Danish fishing expert multiplying the catch of Chile's fisherfolk by replacing their oars with outboard engines...
...While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene of the splash: an 18-ft. alligator usually found lolling there. Later, when his guide careened the boat in too tight a 180° turn, all aboard got dipped. Muttered plucky Dick Nixon, snookless, bedraggled and amazed: "I didn't think it could happen twice...
Convertible Boat. A steel, all-purpose boat that looks like a shallow square box on pontoons has been developed by Trail-Craft Corp. of Clarksburg, W. Va. Designed for use with an outboard motor, the boat weighs 230 lbs., can carry 750 Ibs. as a trailer, and also converts into a tent for four, a duck blind, a wading pool, a swimming raft. Price (including tent top and four cots...
...Outboard & Inboard. But the heaviest buying was in the vast array of smaller inboard cruisers, outboards and utility runabouts. Despite increasing costs, boatmakers have held prices to last year's level, and the show had something for every bankroll. Besides the inboard cruisers, twelve boatyards showed off new, inexpensive, outboard cabin cruisers at prices between $1,300 and $2,500. The cruisers, up to 23 ft. long, can sleep two, do 20 m.p.h. with two motors on the stern. For penny-pinching do-it-yourselfers, who knocked together 30% of the 300,000 pleasure boats built...
...Helm. Outboard, Marine's new motors are not the first attempt to cut down on outboard noise. Evinrude, then a separate company, introduced the first underwater exhaust in 1921. After Evinrude merged with Johnson to form Outboard, Marine in 1937, mufflers and other silencing devices were developed under the direction of President Ralph S. Evinrude, son of Evinrude's founder. But the move to silence the entire line of Evinrudes and Johnsons was made after Joe Rayniak took Outboard. Marine's helm in a management shake-up a year and a half ago (TIME...