Word: boating
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Varadero Beach on Dec. 7, a contingent of bearded Cubans headed by Communist Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara boarded a seagoing hydraulic dredge owned by the M & M Dredging & Construction Co. of Miami, pulled down the U.S. flag, seized the dredge, a derrick barge, two seagoing tugs and an auxiliary boat worth a total...
...more lectures than love? So it seemed last week, which found Gamble in Paris with Rumanian-born Andrei Porumbeanu, 34, a U.S. Air Force veteran, who had met Gamble at a Manhattan party. The two had eloped, right after Gamble's flossy debut party, on a slow boat to Antwerp. Trouble was that Porumbeanu was married, with a wife and ten-year-old daughter back in Manhattan. The couple announced in Paris that they would be wed as soon as Andrei's divorce could be got. Was Andrei merely a fortune-hunting cad on the make for Gamble...
Into Manhattan's Coliseum last week to celebrate its golden anniversary steamed the National Motor Boat Show towing along 426 exhibits and 510 boats, the biggest fleet in show history. Crowds were so big-and sales so brisk-that the industry expects 1960 will easily top record 1959 when nearly $2.5 billion was spent on boating, including sales of 540,000 outboard motors, some 500,000 boats, and 175,000 boat trailers...
With this brief ceremony at Electric Boat's Wet Dock D in Groton, Conn., the U.S. last week took a giant step toward a new era of warfare and a revolutionary concept in the Navy's defense role. Hopefully by year's end, George Washington will be armed with 16 nuclear-tipped, 1,200-mile-range Polaris missiles, ready to prowl the globe as an undersea missile-launching platform. She is the first of a projected nine Polaris subs that will give the U.S. a new order of strategic capability against the Soviet Union. "Under this stout...
...caught the nation's eye with an enlarged version of his thoughtful college thesis, Why England Slept. Later, as a Navy lieutenant in the Solomon Islands, he became an authentic war hero, saved the lives of his crewmen after a Japanese destroyer knifed through their PT boat and sank...