Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this made the U.S. supercomputer effort even more dependent on one man: Seymour Cray. At 63, Cray is one of the most enigmatic figures in computer science. A restless, rugged individualist of legendary idiosyncrasy (for many years he made a point of building a new sailboat every winter and, inexplicably, burning it in the fall), he has devoted his professional life, first at Control Data and later with his own firm, to building the world's most powerful computers. His track record: an unequaled series of five major computer designs dating back to 1960, each for what would...
...started early. At age seven, in 1932, he wrote King George to demand that Britain pay its war debts. He named his first sailboat Sweet Isolation. After Stateside service in the Army during World War II, Buckley went to Yale, where he used the rostrum and the columns of the university paper to crusade against liberalism. He formalized his quarrels in God and Man at Yale and became an unexpected best-selling author...
When not teaching, Solow and his wife Barbara, an economic historian at Boston University (they have two grown sons and a daughter), divide their time between a waterfront condominium in Boston and a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. At the Vineyard, a 24-ft. sailboat is Solow's primary passion. He plans to use part of his $340,000 Nobel Prize money to equip the boat with a new Genoa jib. "I've been just a poor academic up to now," he says, noting that the value of his only other major asset, his share of the M.I.T. pension...
...Quincy House resident was being towed by a sailboat when he was struck by a passing motor boat in the ocean near his hometown of Galeveston, Texas, this summer...
...Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge takes on an unearthly quality belying its 389,000 cu. yds. of concrete, 83,000 tons of structural steel and 80,000 miles of wire, much of it suspension cables a yard thick. From the Marin County headlands to the deck of a sailboat on the bay, the grand old span and its 746-ft. towers appear to be something they are not: floating, delicate, an awesome and ghostly setting appropriate for a James Bond thriller...