Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind ripped out her stove (not that anybody was able to keep any food down anyway). Cameron pressed on with only his storm sails flying, not realizing at the time that of the 91 ships starting, one sank, nine were demasted, and another 26 turned back. The Lancetilla came in first in its second division and ahead of all but four of the first-division boats, winning the coveted Blue Water Bowl with a corrected time of 72 hr. 27 min. 28 sec. Said one of Cameron's exultant colleagues: "Does Chichester need a bosun on his next voyage...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Two Views: A Canadian-American Student Debate," a taped discussion of the war in Viet Nam as seen from opposite sides of the border. Although no formal sides were drawn initially, the U.S. students wind up taking an antiwar stand while the Canadians found themselves advocating U.S. involvement...
...offset the weaknesses of the railroad," he says, "with the strength of other companies. In many respects, they're close to the consumer, while the railroad is not. And they operate on a nonseasonal pattern." Last winter, for instance, the normally profitable C. & N.W. suffered so much from wind and weather that it reported a $ 1,400,000 first-quarter loss on rail operations. But as the result of an earlier acquisition, the consolidated balance looked better. Velsicol Chemical Corp. and smaller Michigan Chemical Corp., acquired by the C. & N.W. two years ago for $90 million, reported quarterly earnings...
...Photographer Steve Winsten. As sensitive as a light meter, Matter, who also wrote the scenario, gains his greatest effects with celebrations of the ordinary: the special glint of Manhattan sidewalks at night, the raucous antics of a flock of gulls, a barefoot walk on the beach, a wave of wind through scruffy dune grass. Implementing the images is a witty, memorable score by Ken Lauber which ties together the film's disparate insights...
...unlike Oscar Wilde, who tripped and fell into the gutter of Victorian reality while trying to walk his mystic way, Cocteau, for all of his histrionics and acrobatics, always managed to regain a safe perch. He was somehow able to have his cakewalking, eat his opium, and yet wind up a middle-class immortal, a member of that superrespectable college of venerables, the Académie Française...