Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others suggested inflating a balloon to shade the craft, or spray painting the affected area. Eventually, NASA seemed to be settling on a different solution: the astronauts would try to shield Skylab with a tissue-thin, aluminized sail-like sheet of Mylar, a plastic film...
...awarded many different prizes for behavior and looks. The Most Ostentatious award went to Eliot House's The Henry Elkins, designed as an oar-powered Mississippi steam boat. The Most Obscene and Most Polluted Crew awards went to the boat from Adams with a large banana on the sail and a bellicose crew that threw the peels at the other boats...
...Most Individual award went to a wet suited fellow paddling a wide surfboard. Two girls with an umbrella sail on a raft of plastic bottles won the Most Ambitious With Least Potential award...
Although it's the top-ranked skippers who get the glory, Horn called Harvard's sailing program "very informal," and added, "We don't cut anyone. We try to give everyone the opportunity to sail." Everyone, that is, who can survive a few accidental dousings in the Charles...
...duty, Dean maintains as low a social profile as most of his Administration colleagues. He putters about his townhouse installing kitchen shelves and light fixtures. He and his second wife, Maureen, play tennis, sail and recently took a Berlitz course in French together. But his anonymity has been badly bumped by the imbroglio over Watergate. "The current happenings around the White House have driven him almost to the point of exhaustion," says a friend. As Dean well knows, the waves from Watergate contributed to washing out another close Nixon aide, Dwight Chapin. They threaten to finish off L. Patrick Gray...