Word: rowboats
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...week in stolen launches, by sailboat, fishermen's dory or makeshift raft, drifting up the Gulf Stream, from Cuba's northern coast 90 miles to the Florida keys. One group of five young men spent 2½ days at sea in an 8-ft. rowboat, at one point hailed a passing freighter for food and water. Their request was refused; it was a Russian ship...
...necessary," said Arnold Palmer, 31, the 5-2 favorite to win the ancient, prestige-laden Open after losing it by a stroke in 1960, "I'm prepared to go around in a rowboat." That was not necessary-but the weather nearly cost Palmer the title. On the 510-yd. 16th hole in the second round, the blustery wind nudged the ball as he was about to swing, cost him a penalty stroke for hitting a moving ball. That left him a stroke behind diminutive, 5-ft. 5-in. Welshman Dai Rees and South African Harold Henning, with...
...demonstrators managed to recapture their flotilla in time, but when the Proteus finally sailed into view, an escort of Royal Navy launches swamped one rowboat and a canoe and chased the others off. The demonstrators wound up in jail, the kind of mild martyrdom they had obviously had in mind. "We called the local police," said one, "to be sure there were enough cells for us." Next day a crowd of 1,000 appeared at Holy Loch waving placards. But the Proteus was on station, and Dunoon welcomed it with a civic reception and a dance. Said Town Clerk Duncan...
...FROGS at the Recreation Building--Wellesley College: Spectacular amphibean extravaganza. Cast of thousands includes Greek heroes, swimming pool as "River Stix" (sic), a fiberglass rowboat as Charon's ferry, and a chorus of singing, swimming frogs. February...
...Britain's choicest sour grapes: those beastly aggressive, filthy rich Americans. Such regional decoctions ordinarily do not travel well, but this one is conveyed to the U.S. public by Gary Grant, who could pour the stuff in a hair net, cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat during a polar gale, and never lose a bubble...