Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bertrams were having their own woes. Harold Abbott's Rum Runner developed a 4-ft.-long crack in the cabin; the radio was smashed, and a reinforcing stringer had broken loose from the hull. In Lucky Moppie, every time Bertram tried to switch to his main fuel tank, his engines quit. Then, maneuvering at the check-in station on Cat Cay, Lucky Moppie slammed into another boat, knocking it into a sea wall and out of contention. Miraculously, Lucky Moppie kept going...
...Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed up-until his reserve tanks ran dry and he had to switch to the main fuel tank. Lucky Moppie stopped dead. By the time Bertram got his engines going again, Abbott's Rum Runner, damaged as it was, had passed everybody and was in front to stay. Up to the Nassau pier roared Rum Runner...
...added that COFO is still unsure of local reaction to the project. It is known that Jackson, the state capital, has expanded its police force and added anti-riot weapons such as dogs and an armored tank to the police arsenal...
Canada's top military representative on Cyprus will be Colonel Edward Amy, 45, a tank officer with a brilliant war record, who says: "We are here as impartial neutrals to do our job as directed by the United Nations...
...protect the V.I.P.s had they been forced down, and was escorted by a half-dozen AD6 fighters. On the ground the pair plunged into a round of grassroots politicking that left locals gasping. At Cantho, 80 miles southwest of Saigon, McNamara and Khanh ignored a blazing oil-storage tank-set afire by Viet Cong mortars only the night before-and drove to the town square. There McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, each grabbed one of Khanh's stubby arms high in a victory salute. McNamara then wowed the crowd by shouting...