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Like many Americans, Richard Nixon was abashed and angered last year when a Lithuanian sailor, Simas Kudirka, was forced to return to his Russian ship after he had defected to a U.S. Coast Guard cutter anchored off Martha's Vineyard. The President raged against the "bureaucratic bungling" responsible for the incident, and demanded new guidelines to ensure against a similar occurrence. The resultant recodification authorizes, among other things, "the use of force against attempts at forcible repatriation," and provides for quicker communication between the State Department and various federal, state and local agencies likely to encounter defectors. The mystery...
...inspirer of such love-hate feelings has long gray locks, chubby pink cheeks and an apple shaped figure. A onetime sailor, onetime ballet dancer, Russell now looks, at 44, rather like an amiable monk. On a set, though, the monk turns into Rasputin, roaring, stamping his feet, cracking a riding whip on the floor. Whole scenes, including choreography, are often invented after the cameras begin turning. "Instant creation," Russell calls it, beaming...
...Erskine Childers. 261 pages. Barre Press, Imprint Society. $35. Written in 1903, this is still the world's greatest sailing suspense tale. It makes the cruise of two Edwardian Englishmen in tidal waters around Germany as immediate and harrowing as last summer's cruise to Cuttyhunk. Any sailor who hasn't read the book should do so. Unhappily, this special edition is tarted up with Rorschach-like woodcut and wash color illustrations, thus sabotaging the realism of tidal charts, maps and seamanlike detail. Readers with unlimited budgets might consider tearing out the pictures and billing the Imprint...
...enlarged storage capacity of 45 boats, there will be a room to expand beyond the present fleet size of 21 boats, 15 Interclub dinghies and 6 Finn dinghies. When funds materialize, the yacht club plans to purchase a fleet of small class sloops also suitable for the recreational sailor. But more importantly, better care can be maintained on the present fleet which has always been stored outside on the old floats...
Consistency and team work has marked freshmen sailing this year. They have been led by Black and Kramarczyk and coached by last year's All-American sailor Abbott Reeve 71. This top New England team has finished in the top three spots in every regatta...