Word: sailed
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...mammoth promotion. Nationwide, each of the church's 7,291 elementary schools and 1,296 high schools will be asked to market an array of buttons, T shirts, pins, decals, posters, videos and banners that bear the logo of a proud galleon slicing through the waves, its sail emblazoned with a giant cross. Kits will be sold that instruct local administrators on how to place ads, write press releases and choreograph a month-by-month promotional campaign. Says Sister Ann Dominic Roach, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston: "This is not business as usual...
...owner of Demel, the famous Vienna pastry shop, had been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...
...cloudless Friday afternoon, several thousand servicemen gathered at Travis Air Force Base northeast of San Francisco to welcome back 430 crewmen from the U.S.N.S. Mercy, a onetime supertanker converted into a hospital ship. (A skeleton crew will sail the Mercy home from the gulf, arriving in 28 days.) The crewmen were cheered at Travis, then rode in buses to the Navy's Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland with a motorcycle police escort...
...Sail: Ship Models and Marine Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts through March...
This coming week, coed Captain Jim Bowers will sail with Assistant Coach Mike O'Connor to the Snow and Satisfaction Regatta, an invitation-only regatta open to current All-Americas and top alumni from around North America. The three-day competition--which in the past has hosted sailors such as Dennis Conner--will feature high-level sailing in a relaxed atmosphere...