Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Race Three was to be the start of the big comeback for Southern Cross. The Australian crew had been defeated in the first two contests by margins of 4:54 and 1:11, and their backs were against the proverbial wall. But the first two races had been sailed in fog and light winds. This was not the Southern Cross's weather, the boat's admirers contended. Wait until the breeze freshens, they claimed, and she'll sail up to her much-publicized potential...
...fishermen vowed to form a barricade of boats to bar the freighter from its home port. Other Japanese cities are no more anxious to receive it. At week's end critics were saying that the Mutsu should become the world's first nuclear Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail ceaselessly without ever putting in to land...
...precarious support on Capitol Hill now crumbled under the revelations, Nixon remained unconvinced that his survival prospects had vanished. He set sail on the Potomac with his family and Rose Mary Woods. At dinner on a refreshingly breezy night, Pat and his daughters argued that there still was no reason for the President to consider resignation...
...sinking of the 3,500-ton Turkish destroyer Kocatepe by a Turkish jet. At least 16 sailors were killed. The accident happened when the Turkish navy provided the air force with incorrect map coordinates of the area in which it would be steaming. Since Turks and Greeks both sail warships provided by the U.S., the Turkish pilot mistook the Kocatepe (ex-U.S.S. Harwood) for a Greek destroyer and sank it with one well-placed bomb...
Richard Burton, 48, is a lonely man. There are lawyers, advisers, gofers, groupies, of course, and until last week, there was Liz. Now Dick must struggle on alone-or almost. Looking grim but fit the day after Liz obtained a Swiss divorce, Burton sailed from Manhattan to Europe last week accompanied by Ellen Rossen, 27, daughter of late Film Director Robert Rossen. Ellen and Burton got to know each other during the making of Daddy's epic Alexander the Great, released in 1956. Other meetings followed. Apparently Teen-Ager Ellen was a welcome backstage visitor when Dick starred...