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...ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself in seconds, but she must have...
...Moscow River. The atmosphere of our talks was as sunny as the fine weather here this week." It was, of course, an exaggeration, but understandable in the circumstances. The atmosphere during the first three days of Tanaka's talks with Kremlin leaders had more closely resembled a squall on the Black Sea. But on the last day Tanaka was buoyed by an important Soviet concession on some business left over from World...
...effort to hold down meat prices, the Cost of Living Council ordered packers to pass along any variations in their cattle costs on a dollar-for-dollar basis, without tacking on their customary profit markup. For the most part, Nixon and his advisers seemed determined to ride out the squall without taking one of their sudden, celebrated zigs in policy. In fact, the only thing they seemingly wanted to change was the nation's eating habits. After the President had endorsed fish as a "patriotic" dish and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns picked cheese, last week COLC Deputy Director...
...persuasively faithful to the cresting good cheer and alternately sinking heart of all travelers in the tradition of Odysseus. On one page he can call his ship a golden paper swan, and on another, a floating haystack. Steering oars snapped with annoying regularity, and two days out a squall cracked the yard, carrying the 26-ft.-high wine-colored sail with a rust-red sun painted on it: the symbol of Ra. When the whole structure of papyrus and ropes expanded and contracted, it sounded, Heyerdahl confessed, like 100,000 copies of the Sunday New York Times being torn...
...right under the most popular jet approach alley to J.F.K. Airport; the planes banshee by at 600 ft. so often that your 21-year-old daughter is driven autistic. Solution: float a war-surplus barrage balloon 1,500 ft. above the house and let the jets squall where they...