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...young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman to help him put his sailboat on top of his car; one woman walked with him to his brown Volkswagen but backed away when she realized that there was no boat in sight. About three hours after Janice vanished, Denise Marie Naslund, 18, a dark-haired computer-programming student, left her sunbathing friends to go to a park...
...Every sailboat man dreams at some time of cruising across the Pacific, running for days under warm breezes, dropping anchor for weeks at islands with names like Raratonga. Citybound mariners mostly learn to content themselves with a few weeks' cruising on inland waters or slashing around the markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper...
Frankly concerned that his new post may put a strain on his family, Rockefeller returned to Maine as soon as he could. He and Happy put out to sea in a sailboat they have dubbed the Queen Mary, Rocky at the tiller, Happy handling the sails. Later in the week, Rockefeller appeared at a tent party in Newport, R.I. During his speech, he was interrupted by hecklers. When the crowd tried to eject one of them, he protested. Then he quieted his antagonist: "Courtesy requires you to wait until I complete my speech. One of the great traditions of this...
...have the genetic disease. Sepe also caused a local furor last year by offering to release convicted child molesters and exhibitionists if they would take injections of a female hormone to lower their sex drive. Recently, when a psychiatrist reported that a youth who appropriated a 22-ft. sailboat had been "deprived of love and affection," Sepe ordered the defendant to live at home, seek psychiatric help and get a girl friend. That solution failed, and Sepe soon had to send the young man to a mental institution...
...girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said a still-incredulous Randi: "I kept saying to myself, yeah, sure, you're getting rescued by Ted Kennedy." A small motorboat arrived on the scene and ferried the five hapless boaters to Kennedy's sloop Curragh, where Ted, Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy and several...