Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marginal player like Pearson (Robert de Niro) will be released if management gets wind of his illness, ends a spring-training holdout by accepting less money than he is worth-if the owners will agree not to cut Bruce. His efforts to keep Bruce's secret from shrewd Skipper Dutch Schnell (Vincent Gardenia), to get the rest of the club to quit ragging a man they don't know is dying, and to encourage Bruce to play above his half-empty head, form the substance of a funny, gentle and honestly sentimental movie that is easily...
...Minister of Mines and Immigration Fraser Colman on board, into the testing area, where it has observed the tests from an upwind position. French warships have not disturbed it. A private schooner, the Fri, also sailed into the area to protest, but French sailors boarded it and hauled its skipper, David Moodie, 27, of Sausalito, Calif., and his 15 passengers off to the island of Hao. In Hiroshima, 130 victims of the first atomic blast marched in silent protest...
...Conrad was able to confirm what the telemetry had suggested. But after surveying the jammed solar panel and the remnants of the meteoroid shield, the skipper was reassured. "I think we can take care of it," he told relieved flight controllers in Houston. Several hours later, it appeared that NASA'S ingenious salvage operation-and indeed the entire $2.5 billion Skylab mission-might end in failure...
Sailing for Radcliffe will be Barbie Grant as skipper and Marie Roehm, crew, in A Division, and Janice Stroud and Kathy Angell in B. Stroud and Angell are co-skippers...
...Friis competition Harvard sailed disastrously. The Crimson finished sixth out of seven teams and in the course of the two days managed to capsize twice--once in A and once in B action. In A racing Clem Wood, crewed by Tim Black, finished consistently fourth or fifth, but B skipper Chris Middendorf was too erratic, finishing high in some races but languishing at the bottom of the standings in others...