Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret dream. In 1958 he paid $160 for a sailing hull rotted by age and neglect. Repaired, refitted and baptized on fresh-water shakedown cruises, Tinkerbelle slipped her moorings at Falmouth, Mass., on June 1, 1965. Seventy-eight days and 3,200 miles later, the 13½-ft. sloop touched shore in Falmouth, England, the smallest sailing craft ever known to have crossed the Atlantic...
...Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...
...Sloop Trim. In public office for 44 of the past 46 years-six as Governor and 21 as Senator-Saltonstall reflected the Brahmin's distaste for the spectacular and the controversial. But few men have worked harder or more competently in the public interest...
Salty could almost certainly have won another term in November. Though at 73 he is still as trim as the sloop he sails on Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week...
...trot around the Olympia High School track. In his first ten months in office, Republican Evans, 40, has also foundoccasion to hold a press conference in a swimming pool-leaving reporters wetter than wiser-break trail for a slalom contest, scale Mount Rainier and, when time permits, sail his sloop...