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Pastels and magic are the main components of The Wreck of the Zephyr, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95). A small sailboat sits wrecked at the edge of a cliff. How did it get up there? An old salt describes the journey to a place where boats glide above the water like seagulls. Van Allsburg's dark, hypnotic illustrations follow the craft through massed clouds and starry evenings, until it crashes to earth with the surprise of a joke and the power of a folk tale...
Since graduating from Brown in 1957, Saltonstall has never stayed in any one job for long. His long resume includes descriptions of his jobs as a trainee in a Betty Crocker cake mix plant in Buffalo, N.Y., and as the president of a Sailboat manufacturing company...
After three years of baking beans, a friend told him about an opening for the presidency of the small O'Day Sailboat Company, which manufactures fiberglass boats...
Working in his Berlin study, musing in his sailboat on Wannsee, lolling in his beach chair at Luebeck, Albert Einstein figured out a new metric. It lies between Euclid's and Riemann's conceptions. It shows that gravity, electricity, magnetism, everything is a logical, not chance, part of the world. It enabled him last week to phrase in mathematical terms a theory by which "everything in the world" can be explained. Albert Einstein's theories have altered human existence not at all. But they have revolutionized human understanding of existence...
...NOTEBOOK. In action closer to home this weekend. Dartmouth's heavyweights overcame the competition and a wayward sailboat en route to victory Saturday on the Charles. The Big Green defeated MIT and Wisconsin, but first collided with a dinghy belonging to the Community Boat House...