Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends: professors, psychiatrists and other intellectuals; he relishes their barbs at business because they challenge him to "see the other side." He is married to a social worker, who looks like a Bergman beauty. He has written three books about society, industry, the future. He is a world-class sailor and plays a folk guitar. At 34, he became president of Sweden's largest insurance company. At 36, he rose to president of Scandinavia's biggest industrial combine, Volvo. Now, at 44, age is beginning to show, but he still is boyishly trim in his blue blazers...
...Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina to Kennedy as they left the Senate floor: "I saw you vote for that, Ted. You ain't so bad. There's hope for you yet." Other Democrats thought otherwise. Complained Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie of Maine: "Like a good New England sailor, Kennedy has learned to tack with the wind." Kennedy did so, moreover, without explaining whether he wants to get the extra money for the Pentagon by cutting domestic programs or by increasing the budget deficit...
...when the Boston General Court approved a motion to spend 400 pounds to found a college in the area. It was not a hot issue--the motion was the last item on a busy schedule that included prohibiting the sale of lace and awarding five pounds to a sailor who lost an eye while on a voyage to Block Island...
...ship U.S.S. Vulcan set sail on a six-month Mediterranean cruise some weeks ago, it had to leave ten crew members behind in Norfolk. Reason: they were pregnant. Rejiggering assignments because of pregnancy is a fact of life these days in the armed forces. Indeed, the pregnant soldier or sailor is becoming as common as the beer-bellied sergeant. At any given time, about 12% of the 130,000 U.S. military women are with child. While some oldtimers grumble that the armed forces are turning into a giant maternity ward, officers are struggling manfully to accommodate the pregnant. Says Vice...
Mike Horn, the present coach of the men's and women's sailing teams here, has watched the Harvard sailing program grow in recent years. A 1963 Harvard graduate and former sailor, Horn said this week, "In 1963 we did everything by ourselves. By comparison things are pretty good today...