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...radar- and radio-control systems. That has bred in them a measure of cockiness and that hard-to-define quality known as chutzpa, or sheer gall. Colonel Uri Yarom, an Israeli helicopter pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck. He was immediately summoned to the bridge, where a U.S. officer demanded...
...giant" oil discovery-one with at least a billion barrels of recoverable crude-in the North Sea. The new field seems conveniently located: 185 miles southwest of Norway and 200 miles east of Scotland. But it rests 230 ft. under one of the coldest and most treacherous seas a sailor is likely to encounter. Simply pumping out the oil and transporting it to refineries will be difficult and costly...
...American sailor Robbie Doyle, who won the single-handed championships last year. led six Crimson qualifiers. Steve Govinsky. Abbott Reeve. David Little captain Joe Worth. and Rudd Istvan will also be eligible for the finals...
Died. Mrs. Hope Goddard Iselin, 102, international socialite, noted horsewoman and sailor; in Aiken, S.C. Widow of Banker-Yachtsman Charles Oliver Iselin, she was the first American woman ever to sail as a member of an America's Cup crew (Defender, Columbia...
...varsity sailing team last Fall completed its best season since the early sixties, and with All-American sailor Robbie Doyle returning, the team seems to be a contender for a top berth in New England this Spring...