Word: sailboating
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...loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when I leave Johnny Carson on for more than ten minutes...
...designed clamps to the ship-two near Skylab's base, one on the telescope mount. The clamps will be used to anchor lines running to the trapezoid-shaped covering. As the lines are tightened, the shade will be pulled into its proper position like the spinnaker on a sailboat (the analogy especially pleases Conrad, who recently acquired a 34-ft. sloop). If this fails, the crew will try again after they have boarded Skylab. One possibility: two of the astronauts will crawl out of a hatch in the space laboratory's airlock module and try to position another...
...call me and let's talk about deferring the registration [fee] until my finances are better?" and "I will need housing at good ole Harvard. I'll need some place to crash [pick a night]." Or, for humor, "I'll be arriving by plane, bus, train or sailboat and will need to be picked...
...promised in another two weeks. For those already out, the period of adjustment seemed to be going rapidly. In Miami, Navy Lieut. Commander Ralph Gaither stepped off the plane into his family's arms after 7½ years. Later, his sister Shirley reported: "He wants to buy a sailboat, but his fondest desire is to drink a can of beer under a backyard tree...
...What is the difference between William F. Buckley Jr. smoking pot on a sailboat three miles out at sea [Dec. 11] to "see what it's like," a 16-year-old girl who tries it "to see what it's like" and gets caught, and a 23-year-old Viet Nam veteran who gets arrested and convicted for receiving a package of grass addressed to his friend...