Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...
Prudential-Grace Lines announced that the 300-passenger Santa Rosa and Santa Paula will sail out of New York harbor on their final Caribbean cruises in January, bringing to an even dozen the number of American luxury ships retired over the past three years. Like most former passenger lines, Prudential-Grace will concentrate on freight. Said President Spyros S. Skouras Jr., who merged his Prudential Lines with the Grace Line fleet last December: "It's the foreign-flag cruise ships-they beat us every time...
...Dallas, Neiman-Marcus has another idea: if the air breeds black lungs, lift sail. For a fitting departure, the store will provide a $588,247 ark, "the perfect retreat from come-what-may." At 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits deep and 250 cubits long, it is slightly smaller than the biblical proportions, but still large enough to accommodate pairings of 92 mammals, ten reptiles, 26 birds, 14 fresh-water fish and 38 insects on its kennel deck. The species are presumably those that Neiman-Marcus deems necessary for setting up life in some as yet unpolluted corner of the globe...
...effort at compromise with today's youthful fashions. He likes semiclassical music and Winston Churchill, and privately and publicly projects total sincerity. He relaxes by roaming around the woods near his home with his wife Muffet and their four young children. Occasionally he travels to Florida to sail (he was in the Navy from 1953 to 1956) and waterski...
Harvard qualified for the Atlantic Coast Invitational at King's Point College November 21 and 22 where six New England and six Middle Atlantic area colleges will compete. The Crimson will also sail for the Angston Trophy in Chicago at Thanksgiving for the first time in 15 years...