Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Hoppin will skipper the College eight-man entry in the McMillan Cup competition Saturday in the Chesapeake off Annapolis, The teams will sail in the Navy's 46-foot yawls in a two-heat race. Four other New England crews, Bowdoin, Brown, M.I.T., and the Coast Guard Academy will compete. The favored teams this year are from Navy, Georgetown, King's Point, and Princeton...
Flap in Manhattan. The press was also in a flap in Manhattan, from where Grace and her party (between 60 and 70) will sail April 4 on the American Export Lines' S.S. Constitution. Reported Herald Tribune Columnist Hy Gardner indignantly: "Miss Grace Kelly ordered the ship's officials to deny first-class privileges to the press and to keep them confined to cabin class . . . four to six to a cabin." The New York Post's Earl Wilson wrote that five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested...
...though, is not what he does but what he is. He is all the guys who live next door rolled into one, and that one seems to be himself. However, anybody who thinks his act is as natural as it looks will probably believe that clipper ships just naturally sail into bottles...
...moved fast to establish the prestige of the Budget Bureau. At his urging, the President called a special Cabinet meeting. Said Dawes to the assemblage: "A Cabinet officer, as I see him, is on the bridge with the President, advising him on the direction in which the ship shall sail. He will not properly serve the captain of the ship or its passengers, the public, if he resents the call of the Director of the Budget from the stokehole, put there by the captain to see that coal is not wasted . . . The way coal is handled and conserved determines...
...Israelis who have money can now buy pretty much what they want -Paris silks, sail boats, U.S. breakfast cereals. On the land, output rose 23% in 1954. Per capita income is $450, highest in the Middle East. Water now flows through 65 miles of 66-in., Israeli-made pipe to irrigate 50,000 Negev desert acres planted to cotton and grain. Israel has struck oil near Beersheba. Though foreign estimates indicate that Israel will be lucky if the find cuts her present $35 million-a-year petroleum imports by much, the first well is already producing 300 barrels...