Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honolulu, the pacifists who had threatened to sail their ketch Golden Rule into the Eniwetok blast area were jailed for defying a court ordering them back. From French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer renewed his stop-the-tests plea, with trimmings of benign neutralist disengagement...
...romantic notions withered by reality is that of human space explorers who will sail out into the solar system like Columbus into the Western Ocean. The day of these heroes may come, but most of the scientists who spoke at Denver think it will not come soon. The present job, they said, is to gather scientific information, and this can be accomplished better by expendable instruments than by fragile, weighty humans. Some of their opinions and projects...
...States Government issued an injunction instructing the crew to appear at a hearing on May 1. On that day the four men, defying the Government, the U.S. Navy, and the Atomic Energy Commission, all of which had given orders that no one was to enter the testing area, set sail from Honolulu for Eniwetok. In half an hour they were overtaken by a Coast Guard cutter and towed back to Hawaii. They have now been arrested for criminal contempt of court...
HONOLULU, May 1--The Coast Guard intercepted the ketch Golden Rule skippered by former Lt. Cmdr. Albert Smith Bigelow '29, Thursday and took it in tow a short time after it had set sail from Honolulu in a defiant attempt to reach the U.S. nuclear test zone in the Pacific...
...Coiling like a spring, the University of Southern California's Rink Babka, 21, spun out of his crouch and watched his discus sail beyond the marking area and plop into a ditch 201 ft. away. Goggle-eyed officials at the meet in Victorville, Calif, decided to credit the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 245 Ibs.) senior with a toss of only 198 ft. 10 in. But that was still enough to smash the 1953 world record of Minnesota's Fortune Gordien...