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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel and Its Enemies | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Find in a Treacherous Sea | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doyle Leads Six To Dinghy Final | 4/28/1970 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 20, 1970 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors, With All-American Doyle, To Contend for Regional Honors | 3/21/1970 | See Source »

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