Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers daily over waters alive with birchbark canoes paddled by Disney-employed Sioux, Shawnee and Winnebago Indians. And in Adventureland nearly 3,000,000 people (adults 50?, children 35?) paid more than $1,000,000 last year to sail down a jungle river-most popular of Disneyland's 42 paid attractions-where trap-jawed crocodiles and painted warriors glare menacingly at every turn...
When George Boston went down to the sea this spring, he had a stout ship under him and a restless, lifelong dream to steer her by: he wanted to sail around the world by himself. Driven by his dream, Boston had built his ship, a 30-ft. auxiliary ketch, with his own hands on the lawn of his home in Swampscott, Mass. Two years ago, he coaxed the Fiddler's Green as far as Port Said before an attack of jaundice sent him home by freighter, his ship lashed ignobly on deck...
This time Bachelor Boston, 35, onetime Boston University football star and Navy demolitions expert, whistled up a wind that nestled firmly in the shoulder of his sail. The sea was a glassy, green highway. Twelve pleasant days later, Boston was stretching his legs in Bermuda...
Last week, with the model island village ready for occupation, a U.S. Navy LST set sail from Kwajalein loaded to the scuppers with happy homeward-bound Rongelapese. They were a far cry from the worried souls who three years ago had called themselves "the poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there...
...Moscow-sponsored drive to repatriate Argentine residents who were born behind the Iron Curtain-and their Argentine children as well-came to a sudden stop last week. The day before the French liner Bretagne was scheduled to sail from Buenos Aires with 80 repatriates, the Soviet embassy announced that all visas were canceled and no more would be issued. The embassy gave no reason. Argentines guessed that a wave of stay-where-you-are letters from disappointed earlier repatriates had soured Moscow on the idea of large-scale returns. Moreover, the campaign to persuade Argentines to return has frequently backfired...