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...Japanese tanker Shin Aitoku Maru looks like any other ship as it plies the Sea of Japan with a cargo of more than 11,000 bbl. of crude oil. But when the breeze comes up, a microcomputer unfurls a pair of rectangular canvas sails and aligns them to the wind. Stretched tight by rigid metal frames, the 40-ft. by 26-ft. sails resemble windmill paddles more than the billowing canvases of a windjammer. Yet the sails enable this 20th century clipper to move at speeds of up to twelve knots under wind power...
...vessel that was launched in August and is now undergoing sea trials. Other sailing cargo ships are also being designed or built in Great Britain, Belgium and California. The new move down to the seas in sailing ships has been stimulated by the high cost of oil. Although the Shin Aitoku Maru cost its backers, Shipbuilder Nippon Kokan (N.K.K.) and the Japan Marine Machinery Development Association, some 15% more to construct than a conventional tanker, it will use 50% less fuel than a regular cargo ship...
...simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak in what he describes as a Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall's role as Olive Oyl was not much easier. "I had shin splints for weeks from those size-14, quintuple-A boots," she groans. Not to mention anvil forearms from toting Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt) around and neck strain from craning to Oylesque proportions. Toughest of all was stifling the giggles. Says Duvall: "Once we were in costume, we just...
Also, junior fullback Jim Callinan, hero of The Game last year and semipermanent invalid, will play after sitting out most of the Columbia game with a badly bruised shin. Callinan and Connors, both backs of considerable--if mostly unrealized--talent should join Tom Beatrice in the backfield and give Buckley every opportunity to take complete control. Of the injured list, Restic said, "We're better off than we were a week...
Halevy insisted that his story was correct. Appearing before a Knesset commit tee, Achituv said that he had asked, well before the start of the bombing investigation, to resign at the end of the year. But Achituv flatly refused to discuss whether, as Halevy charged, Shin Bet did have strong pointers to the identity of the would-be assassins, who have yet to be arrested. Commented the independent daily Haaretz: "Doubts remain - if not with regard to the reasons for the security service director's resignation, then with regard to the investigation of the assassination attempts...