Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years of trying, the U.S. was finally going to get back two icebreakers it lent the Russians as part of the Soviet's $11 billion worth of Lend-Lease aid. The two ships will sail for Bremerhaven for transfer to U.S. hands before month's end, said a Soviet note. Promised two years ago, they have been stuck in the ice off Siberia, according to the Russians, and have apparently just become unstuck. The transfer will reduce the total number of lend-leased U.S. naval and merchant vessels still unreturned and unpaid for by the Russians...
Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed...
...Crimson and Tech varsity men, this brand of sailing is a rarity. They have to sail in any weather, fair or foul. Once, last year, a meet was held in wind so strong that all boats but one capsized...
...work can find a decent job; the facts confirm that feeling (and the starting pay is better 'than ever). But youth's ambitions have shrunk. Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world, or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll...
...over $100,000 to the S.M.U. Press, which consistently loses money on its scholarly and regional books and the quarterly Southwest Review. And, said Athletic Director Matty Bell, "we aren't going to tell you how to run your business, as some of these guys that support foot-sail...