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Still they come, although no longer are the arrivals welcomed to the U.S. with "open heart and open arms," in Jimmy Carter's memorable phrase of May. Even so, Cubans continue to set sail from their homeland and arrive on the shores of Florida. Some 185 disembarked at Key West on a single day last week...
...next few days, Kennedy will sail the waters off the Cape in the Victura and the Curragh. He will walk the uncrowded beach with his mother Rose and play tennis with his sister-in-law Ethel. He will savor the world acclaim from papers and television about his convention speech, and he will probably eat more ice cream than he should and have an extra daiquiri or two. He will luxuriate in his patrician world far from the American deprived whom he has championed, a long distance from the middle class whose stresses he says he perceives. Ted Kennedy...
...Chinese, Columbus has never been much of a hero. Three years ago, a Chinese historical journal denounced him as a "colonial pirate" for setting sail to pillage Asia. Now a Chinese scholar is claiming that Columbus may have been beaten to the New World by a 5th century Buddhist monk named Huishen...
...sleek 12-meter yachts-named for a design formula, not their average length of more than 60 feet -are high-strung thoroughbreds that respond to the smallest calibration of sail cut, hull design or crew performance. Conner's backers raised upwards of $2.5 million, more than double the budgets of the other Cup contenders, enabling him to test both the brand-new Freedom and Enterprise (built in 1976) before settling on his final hull. Racing the two against each other, he logged more than 1,200 practice hours and tried out more than 100 crewmen. He was especially meticulous...
...detail but somehow doesn't make the ship appear as looming as it did in real life. Jameson should have spent a few minutes exploring the ship, poking his camera into the staterooms and galleries that were the pride of the White Star Line when the ship set sail from Southhampton...