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...Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor from St. Vincent or its neighboring island Bequia (pronounced, with an unreproducible West Indian lilt, Beck-wee). His job is not to sail the boat, but to give advice, evaluate your skill, rate it for future charters, and briskly pull you out of trouble in emergencies-as when, on the third day out, I forgot to watch the course when setting trolls for barracuda and nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bareboating in the Caribbean | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

Chaleff is a suite-mate of Don A. Nicholson '76 and Sam M. Wee '76, two students who have been involved with the Memphis, Tenn., dictionary-selling company's recruiting efforts at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Progress | 4/19/1975 | See Source »

...which, Chaleff says, came as a rude shock to Wee and Nicholson, who had been told to keep the whole matter quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Progress | 4/19/1975 | See Source »

...WEE IS from Wichita, Kansas, as is his roommate Don Nicholson, this year's secretary general of the Harvard National Model United Nations. In a suite adjoining Wee and Nicholson's, lives Clark Pellett, from Atlantic, Iowa, who was secretary-general of last year's Harvard Model United Nations along with Jarius DeWalt, who is from a small town in New York. Twice every year they and some other Harvard students run a mock United Nations conference for high school and college students from across the country, arranging and presiding over four days of conferences and social events that...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Blurred Distinctions | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

Brother Blue is not a French Surrealist, but a "storvteller" who's been featured on Eric Jackson a wee hours show on WBCH in recent weeks WBCN is quite stupid to do this, both Brother Blue and Jackson himself have low deep voices that put me, at least to sleep--preciously what I don't need at 4 a.m. (Which is when Brother Blue comes on). He might be less soporific in person, at a relatively early hour (11:59 p.m.), In the Currier House Senior Common Room Saturday night...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE STAGE | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

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