Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover story on Skipper Dennis Conner, faced his own logistical complications. After a 14-hour flight from Los Angeles, Callahan arrived in Sydney and immediately caught a plane to Perth. From there he headed directly to Fremantle harbor for a training session aboard Stars & Stripes. That experience may sound almost as turbulent as a go-around in the washing machine, but it left Callahan feeling exhilarated. "Conner is so at one with his crew, he barely has to give orders. It's really stirring to be on board with the greatest sailor in the world...
Heading out for the decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined...
They are booked solid through next June: nightclubs, country clubs, banquets, benefit afternoon performances in a local park -- name it, they play it. "I wanted the Glenn Miller sound," Stan was saying one recent Sunday night at O'Shea's, where he plays every Sunday night, "and it turned out it was perfect for southwest Florida, for the age group here. The sentiment. The nostalgia. We played the elegant Quail Creek Country Club in Naples last night. When we opened, the people jumped up, and they didn't stop dancing from 8 till midnight." That said, Stan slid into...
Although the CRB has not yet consulted the city legal department about its powers, the board will probably act as an advisory body to Healy, said CRB Executive Director Carl Nelson, who was appointed last Monday. "That may sound vague," he told the five-member board, "but the whole thing is a little bit vague right...
...another reminder to Chinese authorities that sending students to the U.S. for study can be a risky business. Although many of them are party members, their exposure to American political values, says one student, "makes them more democratic." Confirms Maria Chang, a political scientist at the University of Puget Sound: "They are the most uncynical believers in American democracy...