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...Stevens Yachts (10). The oldest and largest firm is Caribbean Sailing Yachts, Inc., founded in 1967 by a sea-obsessed New Jersey dentist named Dr. John van Ost. C.S.Y. has 94 boats at its three bases -Abaco in the Bahamas, Tortola in the B. V.I. and St. Vincent, far south in the Windward Islands. Last year about 31,000 people chartered from these firms. To discover the joys-and tribulations -of bareboating, TIME Senior Writer Robert Hughes recently spent ten days sailing Relaxin', a C.S.Y. Carib 39, through the Grenadines. His report...
...taxi from San Juan takes almost three hours to reach St. Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang...
...series of sketches that show the author as a gentle practitioner of the short-haired shaggy-dog story. Most of them should be read as experiments rather than as polished pieces of comic ingenuity. One essay, for example, "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists," imagines that Vincent Van Gogh is a dentist obsessed with bridgework and X rays as art for art's sake...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay aroused both Wilson's intellectual and physical passion to "a blaze of ecstasy." But Millay, who had the same effect on dozens of men, was soon off for Europe. Wilson had to share his farewell embrace on a day bed with another admirer, John Peale Bishop, "I [holding] her lower half and John her upper-with a polite exchange of pleasantries as to which had the better share...
Lift License. Elsewhere, protests over malpractice problems have intensified. Doctors at St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, were prevented from operating when anaesthesiologists refused to take nonemergency cases. Patients in New York were apprehensive about a possible halt in medical treatment. Doctors in nine of the state's counties objected to a new state law aimed at solving their insurance problems and picketed in New York City to express their distress. Many physicians threatened to withhold all but emergency services beginning this week, despite the threats by at least one legislator of action to lift the licenses of those...