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...nothing did Ted Turner earn the nickname Captain Courageous in his sailing days. As skipper of the yacht Courageous, which won the 1977 America's Cup, he had a knack for snatching victory from sure defeat. In the equally competitive and treacherous world of business, the cable-TV king showed his spunk and resilience once again last week. Just as Turner admitted that his quixotic attempt to take over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company...
...interviewed. He was examined and questioned by State Department representatives as well as by the Navy doctor and Air Force psychiatrist, both of whom concluded that he was not under the influence of drugs and was competent to decide what he wanted to do. While his ship's skipper, its doctor and two Soviet diplomats watched, Medvid insisted that he had merely fallen overboard and had no intention of deserting...
...know what happened," said Peter Willcox, skipper of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. "There were some loud bangs, the boat shook and we sank within four minutes." The 130-ft. converted trawler was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand, last week, preparing to lead a protest of French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. Two explosions ripped a 6-ft. by 8-ft. hole in the hull, scuttling the vessel stern first in 24 ft. of water and killing Ship Photographer Fernando Pereira. The twelve other people reportedly on board escaped unharmed...
...Crimson kept freshman skipper Kyle Kovacs from Saturday and added Devlin and senior Genny Tulloch for Sunday. Senior Laura Schubert and sophomores Emily Simon and Christina Dahlman crewed both days...
With Devlin and Tulloch gone, the Crimson put junior Jess Baker and freshman Elyse Dolbec at skipper and Lyman and sophomore Cassandra Niemi at crew...