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...small bar in Mexico Beach, Fla., Jimmy Carter's eldest son Chip was drinking beer with several other young men on the afternoon of July 20, 1977. His companions included the skipper of the Foxy Lady, a drab work boat that Carter, who was vacationing that month with then Wife Caron and Son James at her family's house near Panama City, had chartered on several occasions. Indeed, Carter was arranging with the owner to use the Foxy Lady for a fishing trip with 20 or so friends...
Probably the main source of Turner's troubles was Freedom's helmsman, Dennis ("the Menace") Conner of San Diego, 37, a star in international sailing since he won his first world championship event in 1971. Ironically, Conner was picked to replace Turner as the skipper of Mariner by the boat's syndicate of investors near the end of the 1974 trials, a move that must still rankle the proud Atlantan. Growls Turner: "He did everything he could to get my job. He just went behind my back and stabbed me while I wasn't looking...
Ronald Prescott Reagan (not Junior, since his father's middle name is Wilson) was "Skipper" as a boy and grew up in more settled circumstances than the other children. "I was sort of an only child," he recalls. "Patti was away at school, and I had the place to myself. Dad was home for dinner almost every night, and the three of us were together." Ron joined his father's 1976 campaign and performed routine chores for a few months, but quit when he found the work "tiring and boring." At Harvard High School in North Hollywood...
Bitterness over low pay was stressed in a cable sent to his superiors in early May by Captain R.R. Owens, skipper of the Texas, which came home last week with the Nimitz. Said Owens: "While we have been able to cheerfully handle the arduous shipboard conditions, we rebel against our inability to provide our families back home with sufficient funds to provide for their wellbeing. It is very hard for a commanding officer to recommend to his men that they apply for food stamps or other welfare and at the same time ask them to be ready to fight...
...iBotes al agua!" (Boats to the water!) Thus prompted by a Spanish-speaking skipper, TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury boarded a chartered 40-footer at Key West for a voyage to the Cuban industrial port of Mariel. Woodbury expected to complete the 220-mile round trip in 24 hours but instead spent nearly a week in Cuba-including five days under virtual house arrest in a Havana hotel. Woodbury's account of his mission to Mariel...