Word: skippering
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...pilot would have circled in a fixed pattern along with other planes, perhaps for an hour or more, hoping for a break in the weather. Or headed for another city. Either choice would have been painful for nerve-racked passengers and costly for the airline. Yet the skipper of Flight 122 blandly announced over the loudspeaker: "The weather is bad on the ground in Chicago today, but we 'II be arriving on schedule." Then he headed the big jetliner toward the socked-in airport and made a routine landing...
Last year's all-Ivy stroke, Kevin Cunningham, is back in his old spot after a week leading the second boat. Jim Russell and Karl Forsgaard have moved up from the second boat to take the seven and six seats, and skipper John Pickering will be at five. Last week's varsity stroke Jeff Cooley rows at four, Bill Chapman at three, Don Harting at two and Pasha Lakdhir, up from...
...sailor next to me said the margin was three points, so I thought I had a little to spare and I wasn't that careful about covering him in the face," Long said. "Luckily, I beat him anyhow and we won," the senior skipper added...
...tenth anniversary of what Commander Lloyd Bucher calls his "footnote in history," but the former skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo doesn't believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison after the capture of his ship. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors...
...Harvard skipper sabreman, John Chipman, also played a vital role in the Crimson victory, matching Vastola's perfect record by beating all three of his opponents. Chipman fenced extremely aggressively, scoring points off his victims with quick running lunges at their chests. After edging his first adversary, Ted Royall, 5-4, he destroyed his last two foes by devastating scores...