Word: lightship
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When he sailed exhaustedly past Ambrose Lightship last week an easy winner (nobody else was within 530 miles), Chichester was checked by a psychiatrist, who reported "nothing much in the way of abnormalities." Chichester's only complaints were that he was four days out of beer, three days out of whisky, and his velvet smoking jacket was mildewed. Told that he had broken the British-U.S. Atlantic solo crossing record by 16 days, weary Mapmaker Chichester bussed his wife (who had come over by liner) and embraced a glass of champagne. "Normally," he mused, "you would...