Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knife in the Water is a Polish thriller as sharp as a knife and as smooth as water. Director Roman Polanski, 30, puts two lusty men and one busty woman aboard a small sailboat, throws them a knife, and for the next 90 minutes lets the tension build, build, build (see cover picture...
...which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua, 10, swam for help, worried frantically after 45 minutes that the boy had drowned. Rescued by a passing boat, Wiesner had the Coast Guard dredging the bay when word came that Joshua...
...Yujiro, the son of a wealthy businessman who died in 1950, actually started his film career as a sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred beer...
...shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold him in his sights. The sidekick tries to blow him up along with a small sailboat-Jerry is snagged in the behind by a fishhook and yanked overboard three seconds before the boat explodes...
...middle of a sun-scorched desert, in thirsty earth so deep-down dry that it could soak up Niagara Falls, the blue waters of a sailboat-dotted lake ripple and lap at the parched shore. A mirage? No-the product of a burgeoning new business: lakemaking...