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...amazing 250,000 people -two-thirds of all salaried workers in Ghana-and corruption was rampant. The wife of one of Nkrumah's Ministers imported a gold-plated bed, and one of his close advisers emptied his private swimming pool to provide storage space for the stream of "gifts" he exacted from local and foreign businessmen...
...Minutes to Swim. On race day, a 20-knot crosswind was kicking up 10-ft. swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered...
...given up and turned back to port. The rest wished they had. Owner-Driver John Raulerson and a crewman had to be pulled off his wallowing, 33-ft. Tin Fish by the Coast Guard (at week's end the empty boat was still floating somewhere in the Gulf Stream). World Champion Dick Bertram didn't even have time to radio for help. Brave Moppie was blasting along at 50 m.p.h. in second place, behind Thunderbird, when disaster struck. "A red warning light suddenly went on, meaning water in the bilge," Bertram said later. "In two minutes we were...
...long since set over the Charles River last July 4, and hundreds of people sat along the shore. A barge floated down-stream and stopped just beyond the Longfellow Bridge; from the bridge technicians set off the Boston-Cambridge fireworks display...
Harvard's troubles were only beginning. At 10:02, a delayed penalty was called on Chuck Pieper, and before the whistle blew, Johnson had committed an infraction too. Playing two men down, Diercks staved off a stream of B.U. shots, until the referee hit his whistle again, and Gray joined the Harvard pair in the box. This led to the bizarre situation of a B.U. power play switching instantly to a Harvard power play when the double penalties ended, and no one knew who was on the attack...