Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest to get aboard was Gretel, the Australian challenger, but Sir Frank Packer finally relented. Her Aussie crew told Lamont that he was the first newsman ever allowed to sail on her, and the cruise Lamont took, in pelting rain and a 25-knot wind, had another distinction: it was the roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet...
...rock 'n' roll. By the time Lyman has finished arranging them, however-building in parts for castanets, chimes, tambourines, cow bells and even the jawbone of an ass-they all take on the same exotic, Oriental flavor. To give listeners the impression that they are in the rain forests of Brazil, Lyman and his men cut loose at regular intervals with what they hope are authentic bird cries. At its best, the group has a delicate, haunting sound that none of its imitators can match...
...whose vacation does not come till Jackie returns from Italy, last week continued his weekend jaunts to Cape Cod, where he joined in a family celebration of Jackie's 33rd birthday. Otherwise, most of the time at the Cape is devoted to the Kennedys' own Little Olympics. Rain or shine, the unbroken pace goes on from dawn until dusk. The first Kennedy swim of the day on weekends is likely to be at 7 a.m., preceded by a run of a mile or so up the beach. Since sitting down is somehow considered bad form, touch football fills...
...Papeete and had a touch of filariasis himself, interested Dr. Kessel in a campaign to rid Tahiti of the wormlets. Kessel trained a staff of Tahitian technicians, showed a film that taught natives where the mosquitoes bred-in holes in trees and rocks, in abandoned canoes, in tin cans, rain barrels, gasoline drums and worn-out tires, in coconuts half eaten by rats-and how to destroy the breeding places...
...iron cannon ball, a carved piece of bone, a bronze candlestick base and the cover of a copper vessel probably used in celebrating Mass. Further digging exposed the plan of the old plaza, including the tracks of two dogs that had run across it once, at a time when rain turned the soil...