Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before tackling this momentous question, Adenauer, 86, and De Gaulle, 71, paused for lunch and a siesta. Then it was time for the three-and-a-half hours of hard bargaining on European unity. As it turned out, it was Charles de Gaulle who trimmed his sail a bit by agreeing to withdraw France's latest draft. In return, Adenauer promised not to push too swiftly the idea of a European political superstructure, with an executive to tell governments what to do and a secretary-general and bureaucracy to decide...
...Sail a Crooked Ship (Columbia). A very funny man was the late Ernie Kovacs (TIME, Jan. 19), and never funnier than when he was playing a shtunk. Big, broad-shouldered and vulgarly handsome, he had a way of swaggering up to some pitiful little twerp and sneering down at him as he sucked reflectively on a cigar the size of a fungo bat and stroked a big, black, bushy mustache that seemed to demand insultingly: "Howzat for virility, ya hairless squirt...
...Scotland, will take up a regimen that begins daily at 7 a.m. with a cold shower followed by an empty-stomach sprint around the school grounds. Along with Gordonstoun's 400 other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun does not pretend to great academic excellence. Instead, it wants to give...
...Biggest news for sailors is Ratsey's refinement of the holed spinnaker, the Venturi. The sail has a series of horizontal slots across its top half. The breeze flowing through the slots shoots downward, thus by counteraction pushing the sail itself upward and providing extra lift. According to Designer George Ratsey, the slots also operate to reduce the "knockdown" or heeling effect on close reaches. Price: 25% higher than conventional spinnakers...
Lost Lady. The author is now nicely above the treetops; he could sail for a while and eventually arrive safely back on earth. Instead, he throws away all his sandbags and soon is far out in the grey with nothing below him but open water. For the last 40 pages, 'the story is a meditation on the incident by a bemused academic type who indulges himself in lengthy prose calisthenics on the destructive force of innocence in American society. It is a good meditation, filled with elaborately balanced sentences that deserve to' be read twice, and must...