Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boat-to-boat duels of match racing. But, says Packer, "we came to Newport for only one reason-to win," and he has spared no effort or expense. Designer Alan Payne spent twelve months and $18,000 of Packer's money testing hull models in the tank at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. The product of those tests is a 6g-ft. 5-in. hull of Honduras mahogany that took nine months to build. Gretel's sails were cut from 13,970 yds. of light blue Dacron imported from the U.S.; her go-it, extruded aluminum mast...
...this a Soviet bomb blast that the West had not detected or announced? And one set off with manned tanks dangerously near? Probably not. Closer examination of the photograph suggested an entirely different explanation: the mushroom cloud seemed simply to have been painted or superimposed onto a picture of routine tank maneuvers. If so, Red Star's caption writer is clearly a man of imagination. His dramatic description of the scene began, "A mighty atom explosion neutralized the resistance of the enemy. Tank units moved swiftly forward at highest speed carrying out the orders of the commanders...
Four years ago, Grant and his psychiatrist tried using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful drug with effects similar to mescaline) to help uproot Cary's deepest psychological problems. Often called instant analysis, LSD cleans out the subconscious like lye in a septic tank. Impressed with his own progress under its influence, Grant delivered a confessional lecture at U.C.L.A.: "I was a self-centered boor," he told an audience of fascinated students. "I was masochistic and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, 'There must be something wrong with me,' I grew...
...Breed. Are Randall's fears real? Some businessmen think so. Says Union Tank Car President Edwin A. Locke Jr.: "A sort of philosophy has grown up that an executive should have a clear desk and sit around and do nothing but think. This is absolute nonsense." But there are others who think that Randall describes a passing generation of corporate leaders. Said William H. Rentschler. chairman of Chicago's Stevens Candy Kitchens: "The new breed is not that way. They take a much more active role in public life and are much more conversant with what...
...Greek mainland. The Dracone-which gets its name from the Greek word for serpent-was conceived during the 1956 Suez crisis by British Engineer William Rede Hawthorne, 49. Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol. But soon there was a glut of oil tankers-and European refineries had no more need for sausage barges. Hawthorne began to think of using them with other loads in remote places. Dracones are cheap (from $12,600 to $63,000), can be towed easily...