Word: sail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger than 70,000 tons-to handle those in the 200,000-ton range. But many of the new supertankers are 250, 000 tons or more. Moreover, if and when the canal opens, the oil producers would probably find it cheaper to pipe oil to the Mediterranean than to sail through Suez and pay its heavy tolls. Using a pipeline would result in even more savings compared with the cost of long hauls around the Cape; Persian Gulf oil would simply be unloaded from supertankers at one end of the line, then put into smaller ships at the other...
...Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic, but leaving the bearded airman-turned-seaman "a little disappointed...
...sail around the horn...
White sat out World War II in an Irish farmhouse, and later settled on Alderney in the Channel Islands. He learned how to sail, and he learned the deaf-blind language so that, year after year, he could entertain members of a deaf-blind society whom he invited to Alderney. In 1957 he revised The Once and Future King, softening a nasty lampoon of his nasty mother (Queen Morgause, the witch...
...class of 1972 will be balanced by plenty of students with something else to offer. The University of Pennsylvania found one in a senior at Massachusetts' Phillips Academy with a generally undistinguished academic record. He impressed Penn officials by mentioning in his application his deep love of sailing, which, he rhapsodized, occupies his attention "from the first wakening sail in early April to the last frostbite stint in late October." Columbia passed over applicants with stronger academic credentials to accept a practicing Buddhist from up state New York, a New Jersey student who arranged music for an off-Broad...