Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor from St. Vincent or its neighboring island Bequia (pronounced, with an unreproducible West Indian lilt, Beck-wee). His job is not to sail the boat, but to give advice, evaluate your skill...
Abie-Bodied Seaman Herbert McDonald, 57: "This was my second hijacking at sea. I was on a freighter off the coast of Pakistan when some guys came aboard and pointed guns at us. Then they let us go. At first I thought the Cambodians were going to take us out and shoot us. But they were so nice, really kind. They fed us first and everything. I hope everybody gets hijacked by them...
Abie-Bodied Seaman Earl Gilbert, 52, of Pascagoula, Miss.: "After the Marines came, God I felt good. Damn good. Those Marines are great. Ford did a damn good job, but I just want to thank those Marines...
...average. The board of education recently approved a $30 million school-building program, and a $14 million city hall is under construction. Along Topeka Street east of the Little Arkansas River nearly every one of the turn-of-the-century houses is getting a face-lifting. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman traveled to Wichita to find out why. His report...
Died. Harry Manning, 77, retired Vice Admiral of the U.S. Maritime Service, a crackerjack seaman who executed the bone-chilling lifeboat rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Florida in 1929, accompanied Amelia Earhart as navigator on her first attempt to fly around the globe, and skippered the passenger liner United States on her 1952 maiden voyage across the Atlantic and back in record time (6 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes); after a long illness; in Saddle River...