Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stripped to the Bone. The Weatherly that Mosbacher piloted last week was not the same sluggish boat that wound up ahead of only hapless Easterner in 1958. Her stern overhang had been lopped off; she had a new, flatter keel that was designed to point her mast higher (to take advantage of steadier breezes that blow well above the water), make her faster beating to windward. Racing boats are like racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened...
...Minsk, an 18-man gang accused of black-marketing and dealing in foreign currencies met stern punishment. Ringleader Mikhail Bursakov and four others were sentenced to death,* the remainder got prison terms ranging from five to 15 years. The doomed Bursakov was reported to have a criminal record dating back to 1935, when he was sentenced in Leningrad to three years for selling "shoes in short supply." In 1950, he drew a term of eight years for embezzlement after he had somehow become director of a state store. When arrested, Bursakov had 42 separate accounts in Soviet savings banks, with...
...Franco era in Spain is near. Just how near no one can say, for the dictator has proved himself immensely durable. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since El Caudillo defeated the Republicans in Spain's bloody Civil War and built his stern, stable military regime in the proud, suffering land. Today, he seems as confident as ever that the regime can go on forever. But all the signs dispute him. There is in Spain a ferment and unrest that signals change ahead...
...edification of those disgruntled by and ' South private Viet Nam's dancing, new ban on strait-laced public First Lady Mme. Nqo DInh Nhu delivered a stern lecture. "Foreigners come here not to dance, but to help Vietnamese fight Communism." said President Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin...
...ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Isaac Stern, violinist Mus.D...