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...Taft might have provided that kind of leadership. Without it the powerful senior Republicans, particularly in the Senate, still run things to suit their own conveniences. The Old Guard Republican leaders do not seem to be trying to take over the party. Rather, they snipe or obstruct without any apparent sense of party responsibility or direction. Minority Leader Bill Knowland, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Ohio's John Bricker and Colorado's Eugene Millikin virtually ignore the President as a leader of Congress. He makes no effort to punish them for so doing...
...breeze-struck schoolboy of ten in New Orleans, Eugene Walet talked his father into buying him a Snipe Class sailboat. The elder Walet, who is president of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., was soon shanghaied into a task familiar to the parents of juvenile sailors. Landlubber Walet began training as a weekend crewman under his son's command on Lake Ponchartrain...
Sailing in 1953 is, in fact, more than just another sport; for more and more Americans it is rapidly becoming one of the designs for modern living, something around which the rest of the week is arranged. Families haggle over whether Buddy or the breadwinner shall have the Snipe on Saturday afternoon, just as they have long haggled over whether Buddy shall have the car on Saturday night. Mothers take their nursing babes to sea with them, rather than miss a spin with the family. On Sunday mornings, when a good breeze is stirring the tops of the trees, wise...
...sail before. Near Atlanta, Ga. three years ago, a federal flood-control and power project created a winding lake, 30 miles long. By now, over what was once a land of cotton, the yachtsmen of two new Atlanta clubs can sail fleets of Thistles, Y-Flyers and Snipes every day of the year. At Wichita, in the dry state of Kansas, lives the National and Western Hemisphere champion in the Snipe (15½-ft.) Class, Aeronautical Engineer Ted Wells, who does his home sailing on tiny ( ⅔ sq.mi.) Santa Fe Lake...
...Black Thursday" in Wall Street), Shields & Co. had most of its assets in cash, happily for Shields & Co. But the bottom dropped out of the big yacht business when the bottom dropped out of the stock market. Nineteen thirty-one marked the start of the popular 15½. Snipe Class (9,514 in world waters today), and the trend to smaller boats for more people was under way. As one historian records: "People discovered that a sail was a far cheaper method of transportation than buying gas for an engine...