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...protocol. A wealthy investor in real estate and oil, Dartmouth-educated Mosbacher has twice skippered a successful America's Cup defender: Weatherly against Australia's Gretel in 1962 and Intrepid against the 1967 Australian challenger, Dame Pattie. The Potomac is no place for a blue-water sail or but, said Mosbacher, "Maybe I can sail a dinghy down there...
...Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, when Apollo 204 burned on its pad in January 1967, the translunar vehicle was extensively redesigned. Man's first voyage to the moon also bore the imprint of two farsighted Presidents: John F. Kennedy, who exhorted the nation to "set sail on this new sea," and Lyndon Johnson, who in more prosaic language insisted to Americans that "space is not a gambit, not a gimmick," but a realistic challenge that could not be evaded...
...introduced to five or six match mates. Take it from there." The bit of text, from a new, youth-oriented magazine called 25, sounded intriguing; the accompanying photographs of frolicking girls in bikinis were positively tantalizing. TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey, 27 and single, took it from there and set sail on the Olympia. His report...
...here. The filth, the filth." A legal secretary from Long Island expresses her distaste for Greek cuisine by insisting upon ham sandwiches and malted milks, and one cynic suggests that the ship is really a floating mental hospital, the stewards actually keepers, the passengers patients. They are doomed to sail forever...
Lost Allegory. Yellow Submarine has set sail under somewhat false pretenses. For one thing, most of its advertising gives the impression that the Beatles made it, though almost their only contribution consists of excerpts from their records, plus three new and not notable songs. Secondly, the credits state that it is based on John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's song by the same name, but the story line of the film has very little in common with that simplistic little allegory about goofing off on barbiturate capsules ("yellow submarines...