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...down, but the strong currents off Cape Cod are a serious threat. Though proof against water pressure in the deepest ocean, Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes that it will take Trieste Skipper Lieut. Commander Donald L. Keach to guide his strange craft to the bottom, unexpected currents may carry her out of sight of the sunken submarine...
Emil Mosbacher Jr., skipper of the yacht Weatherly, winner of the America...
...vignette of heroism in the far greater story of the war in the South Pacific, PT 109 would have made a serviceable little picture for the double-bill circuits. But blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...
...furies of the southern seas, few are as furious as a U.S. tuna-boat skipper forced to pay up to $8,000 to the government of Ecuador for a one-shot license to drop his nets anywhere within 200 miles of the Ecuadorean coast. Last year, says August Felando, general manager of the American Tuna Boat Association, West Coast skippers were hooked for a cool $500,000 for the privilege of fishing in the 66,000 sq. mi. of blue Pacific Ocean claimed by Ecuador. "The association felt that things were getting worse, with fines and harassments from the Ecuadorean...
...U.R.I. crew was able to show that the boat had a defective centerboard, though, and received a different boat, in which they won the race. The final meet score was U.R.I. 143, Harvard 140, with M.I.T. third (125) and the Coast Guard fourth (106). High-point skipper for the championships was Mike Horn, at 72 points for the B division series. Carter Ford was tied with U.R.I.'s skipper for high-point honors in the A division with 68 points...