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Casting off from Casablanca last March 29, Delta Airlines Pilot Hugo Vihlen, 36, confidently squared away his six-foot sailboat, April Fool, and shaped a course for Miami Beach, 4,100 sea miles distant. For 84 days, Vihlen bobbed and tossed in the prevailing easterlies, subsisted on little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came...
Cornell came on in the third period primed to satisfy the blood-thirsty demands of the Ithaca crowd, John Hughes picked up a blocked slap shot by Pattison and found the range with a six-foot backhander at 0:29. The Big Red set up a shooting gallery around Diercks, and Brian Cornell collected a kewpie doll...
...Winfield, a strong Crimson contender for an all-Ivy sabre slot, outclassed all three of his Brandeis opponents. Tony Abbott won one match and lost two, as did Bob Barnard. Backing away from his man. Barnard smashed into and shattered a six-foot mirror on the wall...
...have brought Uganda a modicum of stability, expanded trade and improved intertribal relations. In the capital of Kampala, Obote's modern outlook is symbolized by the dozens of new office and apartment buildings that brace the skyline. Nearing completion is a skyscraper hotel bearing on its roof a six-foot neon sign with Obote's first name. It has been nicknamed, naturally, "the Milton Hilton...
...told his men that it was a work of art. "They didn't take it too serious," he says. But they did take special care to choose unscratched pieces of steel. In fact, they did such a good job that the next time Tony wanted a box, a six-foot cube that he named Die, "I just picked up the phone and ordered...