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...four-hour pounding down the tricky, debris-laden Hudson River in a bucking outboard motorboat is not every man's idea of the way to spend Sunday morning. But to some people, it is the high spot of the year. This week 234 of such enthusiasts clambered into their tiny, buglike craft and racketed hopefully off the starting mark at Albany, in the 18th annual marathon to New York City. Of the 234 starters, 115 finished, and that was about par for the 130-mile course...
Rope & Iron. Suspicion was first aroused when two fishermen left Port-of-Spain in an outboard-powered pirogue on a calm day and never came back. Four days later two other fishermen went out in their boat and also failed to return. The last to report their boat was a fisherman who said he saw them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson...
...month bound for Venezuela with a $3,000 cargo of cloth and had never been seen again. The police raided the home of Singh's wife and son, found some silk and tweeds of the same pattern as those bought by the missing Venezuelans. They also found the outboard motor and fishing equipment of one of the first boats to disappear...
...taken into account the implacable curiosity of science. In San Francisco, University of Michigan Zoologist Karl Lagler reported a 66-day fishing experiment on a quiet Livingston County, Mich, lake (980 man-hours, 1,561 fish). Every other day a colleague buzzed the experimenters in a noisy outboard, but the racket never hurt the catch. Zoologist Lagler's conclusion: a hungry fish doesn't mind noise...
Eighty minutes later Pilot Claude banked the big DC-6 into line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to them to lengthen his glide, but the Aztec was caught-sluggish and vu'nerable-in the drag of her extended landing gear and flaps. "She's a goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left...