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...people sail as well and work as hard as they did in the fail, we should be able to qualify," he says, but warns. I have seen a lot of good teams not do well on that one weekend and that is what it comes down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Sailing | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

...time you set sail...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: More Than Margaritaville | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

...also includes volumes of hand-me-down ideas about the traditional maternal look. To look pregnant is to look bowed in the middle, practically bulbous; to be pregnant is open physical defiance of prevailing fashion form. The usual course around these dire sartorial straits has been to sail into great billowing garments of soft prints that try to exalt maternity by sentimentalizing it. The expectant mother, shrouded in a calf-tickling Laura Ashley fantasy, becomes a late-Victorian artifact, like a sprite from a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph. A woman who wanted a certain modernity of fashion to complement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Stepping Out with My Baby | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...nightmare that the boatmaster will break out of jail and once again go for his head. Whatever else he thinks he does not say?sitting by himself in front of the television set, or pacing the walkway beside the fence, or facing the harbor full of boats that sail the world where everything is beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: We Go Together in One Boat | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...favorite strategy of marijuana smugglers is for a drug-laden "mother ship," usually an aging freighter, to sail from Colombia or the Caribbean and then stay bobbing 50 miles or so off the Florida coast. On long hauls, drug runners motor out to the mother ship in yachts and fishing boats to pick up the cargo and then shuttle back to the mainland, docking anywhere along some 3,000 miles of South Florida coastline; on shorter hauls, they roar out in souped-up racing speedboats, called "cigarette" boats after the tobacco-bootlegging vessels of the 1930s. Costing as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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