Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an hour, most of the boats had 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...
Died. Will A. Dillon, 88, composer of such Tin Pan ditties as At the End of the Road and I'll Wed the Girl I Left Behind, but best remembered for his lyrics for I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; of arteriosclerosis; in Ithaca...
Born. To Aye Aye Mynt U, 26, daughter of U.N. Secretary General U Thant, and Tin Mynt U, 29, Manhattan College assistant professor of math: a son, U Thant's first grandchild; in Manhattan...
Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville...
Early last year, when Communist union leaders resisted his reforms for Bolivia's notoriously inefficient tin mines, Barrientos slapped the mines under military control, ordered troops into troubled areas and exiled 200 union leaders, including Union Boss Juan Lechin. After a bloody series of battles that left 102 dead and 350 wounded, the miners finally gave in. Helped along by a high tin market, the mines moved from under a $3,000,000 deficit in the first five months of last year to a net year-end profit of some $2,000,000-their first year in the black...