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...there is none. In 1962, there were 3,897 pleasure vessels involved in 3,085 accidents reported to the Coast Guard, resulting in 1,055 deaths from drowning and other kinds of accidents, plus 977 nonfatal injuries. Capsizing accounted for 42% of the total fatalities; 22% of them fell overboard, 12% drowned from a sinking...
...February 1, 1870, James recorded in his diary: "Today I about touched bottom, and perceive plainly that I must face the choice with open eyes: shall I Frankly throw the moral business overboard, as one unsuited to my innate aptitudes, or shall I follow it and it alone, making everything else merely stuff for it? I will give the latter alternative a fair trial. Who knows but the moral interest may become developed...
Predictably, Mississippi's Democratic Senator James 0. Eastland said that the report reeked of "rankest falsehood." But even less Pavlovian officials thought the commission went overboard. The President himself pointed out that he has no general authority to hold back federal funds, since by law only Congress can say what strings are attached to what money. Broader presidential powers "would probably be unwise," he said...
...been tested successfully in both fresh and salt water since 1960. About 70? buys 12 to 16 pieces of dry bait-sized shrimp, which needs only water to make it tasty again. > For scuba-ho underwater photographers: a new all-weather camera, Nikon's Nikonos. Drop it overboard, drag it through sand and mud, leave it out in rain and spray, or shoot the wonders of the deep as far as 164 ft. down without an extra housing. Taking 35-mm. film and with an /2.5 Nikkor lens, the Nikonos will sell for approximately...
...sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold him in his sights. The sidekick tries to blow him up along with a small sailboat-Jerry is snagged in the behind by a fishhook and yanked overboard three seconds before the boat explodes...