Word: sail
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Saturday, Harvard will sail in elimination A of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association sloop competition at Coast Guard. Three of the seven teams will become finalists, with Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Northeastern the favorites...
...total cost (including 266 special barges) of $111 million. The third barge ship, the Stradler, designed by New York Engineer Frank Broes, will be a catamaran that will cradle ten barges between its twin hulls. The motorized barges, each holding 12,000 tons of cargo, will sail in under their own power through a bow door, sail out through a stern door. Broes' Stradler Ship Co. is negotiating to buy a shipyard to build these vessels...
...nearly five centuries, merchants and mariners have dreamed of opening a commercial sea lane across the top of Canada and Alaska. Venetian Explorer John Cabot, in search of a short trade route to the Orient, made the first unsuccessful attempt to sail through the frozen Arctic Ocean in 1498. Dozens of others-French, English and Portuguese-followed in his wake, but it was not until Norwegian Roald Amundsen piloted the small yacht Gjoa through the ice-choked waterway in 1906 that the Northwest Passage was finally discovered. Since then, only six vessels have completed the treacherous voyage, and the passage...
Last week a new and mighty expedition set sail in an effort to open the Northwest Passage to shipping. Manned by a 95-member party of sailors, scientists and newsmen, the 1,005-ft.-long tanker S.S. Manhattan eased out of her berth on the Delaware River near Chester, Pa., and set her course northward toward Greenland. From there the 115,000-ton ship, the most powerful in the U.S. merchant fleet, will turn westward into the passage itself, heading for Prudhoe Bay and the oilfields of Alaska's North Slope. Her mission is to test the feasibility...
Such doubts are spoken in his troughs-and Kennedy has been susceptible in the past few weeks to more than usual ups and downs. After his three-day sail last week, his intention to remain in the Senate and seek re-election in 1970 seemed buoyed anew. Though he retained serious doubts about his future effectiveness, he seemed convinced for the moment that to quit public life would simply be "letting them" drive him out. Still, nearly all his friends -among them the scholarly subalterns of the New Frontier-are worried about...