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...divorce, if not before, Walker was often seen escorting attractive women to Norfolk nightspots. His fondness for Scotch brought him a now ironic nickname, "Johnny Walker Red." He could take dates on Chesapeake Bay cruises in his green houseboat, the Drift-R-Cruise, or on his 26-ft. sloop (each valued by his lawyer at $6,000). There were also flights in his single-engine Grumman Tiger, which was worth an estimated $20,000. He dated Pamela Carroll, a Norfolk police officer who moonlighted at his private detective agencies...
...support the measure. "This is one- issue politics," said Cuomo. "The issue is called survival." Many prominent Republicans in the state were also alarmed. To protest the proposed change, G.O.P. Senator Alfonse D'Amato staged a mock re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party from a 62-foot sloop in New York City's East River. Even ardent Tax Reformer Jack Kemp, a Congressman from upstate, favors adjustments that would ease the tax burden on New York residents...
...motive. A former Navy communications man who served with Walker at Norfolk in the late '60s told TIME that Walker liked to live well even then. At one point during the period when Walker is now believed to have begun spying, the man recalled, Walker bought a 27-ft. sloop, no small feat on the salary of a young naval officer. Walker seems to have been enchanted by skulduggery: although a professional spy would not normally lug around incriminating evidence, Walker was caught carrying the map of drop sites, plus code pads, secret writing equipment and ciphers...
...varsity women took third, behind Brown and Connecticut College, at the Radcliffe-hosted Sloop Shrew Saturday and yesterday...
...Catholic priest from New Jersey, a psychologist from Texas and a high school instructor of auto mechanics from Hawaii. Judy Cullen, an animated grandmother and preschool teacher from Lopez Island, Wash., signed up for Day's course because she wants to help her husband build a 36-ft. sloop. Brockett Muir, who recently graduated from the University of Virginia, came to the school because he hopes to spend the next few years building boats professionally...