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...experienced crew should be a poised crew, and poise is an indispensable asset to have when New Zealand is starting to go by on your starboard side and the East Germans are sprinting over to port...
...HYANNIS PORT--Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), on his way to lunch aboard his family's yacht yesterday, said he had no plans to go to the Democratic Convention at Miami Beach...
...picture a black and white Dalmatian perched atop a screaming fire engine of bright lime yellow, but that peculiar color combination is beginning to appear in fire departments round the nation. Thanks to extensive research by such men as Dr. Stephen Solomon, an optometrist and a member of the Port Jervis, N.Y., volunteer fire department, more and more fire chiefs have been made aware of a stark physiological fact: people are red-blind at night. Says Dr. Solomon, who has published a number of articles on color research: "The color red is one of the least visible colors and rates...
...river flow was put at 550 billion gallons a day-the highest in nearly two centuries of record keeping. Governor Milton Shapp's $2.4 million executive mansion was flooded to its first-floor ceiling. Electric power failed; hospitals resorted to emergency generators. With roads, railways and the air port under water, President Nixon chose the only quick way to get there on his inspection tour of the damage: he helicoptered in from Camp David, Md., after a flying survey of flood damage in Maryland, Virginia and other areas in Pennsylvania...
...noon, many people gathered at the Grand Hotel, a pink elephant of a building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full...