Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where better than Maine, then, for a man to launch a dream-and a wind-driven cargo schooner? If fuel costs are to force America to retreat from the technological revolution wrought by the internal combustion engine, the first step backward is shortest, and easiest, and most welcome where there has never really been a wholehearted step forward. So it was that on a bright, late-summer day, farmers, fishermen and their families-6,000 of them in all-flocked to the ramshackle Wallace Shipyards in Thomaston (pop. 2,500) to cheer "that Ackerman boy" as his new two-masted...
...cost of running any engine-driven ship, and the price still rising, freight rates will force merchants to find a cheaper way to haul goods. "Some day," says Ackerman, "there may not be any more fuel-driven trucks or motor ships at any price. But wind is plentiful." Cargo sailboats used to make the run from Maine to South Carolina in as little as a week's time. But there is always tacking against the wind. All together, Ackerman hopes to average 100 miles...
...Nogales, backed by charts and diagrams, he tells the cops how he once tracked a burglar along a concrete road by watching for traces of footprints in "little stringers" of wind-blown sand. Though he shares such knowledge happily, he has found that tracking and desert work require a patience that is disappearing from America. He has camped out for weeks at desert airstrips with his dog Baron. "It's hard to keep the younger guys staked out like that," he laments. "They're gung-ho at the start, but two trips out is about all they...
This year the Journal expects to move into the black for the first time. "We've got more than an 85% renewal rate and our circulation is growing," boasts Editor Richard Frank. But the warm breeze of success should not be misconstrued as a prevailing wind for making the magazine, perish the thought, popular. Says Sullivan very firmly: "We are definitely not thinking that...
...everything from sappy comedy to high tragedy, engendering chillers, thrillers and even fantasies that have been coming forth in salvos of histories, novels, movies and television shows. Furthermore, say experts who keep an eye on such trends, although it has not yet given birth to a Gone With the Wind, World War II is at last supplanting the Civil War as the country's favorite conflict for probing, pondering and-to be honest-enjoying...