Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Willis, 75, solitary sailor who, just for the challenge of it, pitted his skill against the sea in small, hand-built boats; after his battered 11½-ft. sloop Little One was found empty 400 miles west of Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge...
...senile Macao millionaire, played by Welles, is a man in love with numbers and facts. He decides to play God by breathing literal life into a traditional sailors' tale-the one about an impotent rich man who hires a seaman to impregnate his young wife. The millionaire flags down a 17-year-old seaman and an aging girl-about-town (Jeanne Moreau) and puts them in his sumptuous bedchamber. The sailor, he cackles, will one day tell the story of his exploit-and for the first time in history, that yarn will be founded on truth...
...northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic, but leaving the bearded airman-turned-seaman "a little disappointed...
Duncan, a onetime merchant seaman who narrowly lost to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield in 1966, vowed early "not to descend to personalities." As Morse gained ground, however, Duncan bitterly suggested that the Senator might be waging "the first million-dollar campaign in Oregon's history." A strong supporter of the President's war policies, Duncan was robbed of his chief issue against Morse when the Paris talks started...
...asked to be transferred. ABC's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sam Jaffe also decided after three recent weeks in Viet Nam that "I won't cover Khe Sanh, and I refuse to go back to Hué." Summed up Jaffe, 38, who saw action as a merchant seaman in World War II and with the Marines in Korea: "The longer you stay here, the more inevitable it is that you're going to be hurt, maimed or killed...