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Among the frostbiters are some of the greatest sailors in the U.S. Perennial winner is 53-year-old Arthur Knapp Jr., a Manhattan stockbroker who has won more ocean races than he can remember, skippered the America's Cup candidate Weatherly two years ago. In the dinghy next him may be George Hinman, commodore of the New York Yacht Club; Bus Mosbacher, helmsman of Vim and one of sailing's best young skippers; or Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., whose celebrated sailor father suffered a heart attack while frostbiting at the age of 61 four years ago. Fact...
...Because Skipper Peace is exactly the kind of cavalier that the reader, actuality aside, knows himself to be, the swoops of a hyperbolic plot hardly matter. What is the man doing off the coast of South West Africa in a vessel fitted out as a lowly trawler, but bearing high-speed engines in the hull of a yacht? The shoreline he approaches is forbidden, diamond-rich territory; is Peace after contraband...
...stepped forward on the deck, read the commissioning orders and said: "I am ready to hoist the colors." Up went the Stars and Stripes and the commissioning pennant on the first U.S. submarine of a new class to join the fleet-the history-making Polaris sub George Washington.* Skipper Osborn next turned smartly to his executive officer, snapped a gloved salute. "Mr. Hannifin," he ordered, "set the watch...
...computers to program missile shots to preset targets. Even while submerged, George Washington can receive messages, and if war should come, she would be able to fire her 16 Polaris missiles at 16 separate targets from below the surface depths within a few minutes (see map). "After that," says Skipper Osborn, "our war is over, and we go home." Three Years Ahead. The technological war to get the Polaris weapon systems built got started just three years ago with an encouraging kick from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said Burke to Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., officer in charge...
...derelict? The skipper caught a dangling rope and swung himself aboard. Fires out, engines dead, cargo-kapok, tea and aircraft engines-apparently intact. "Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper. "Anybody aboard?" A blow sent him reeling. A mad. bloody head leaped at him out of the shadows. "Who are you?" the creature (Gary Cooper) snarled. "What are you doing here...