Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From a sailboat offshore, two men and a woman swam to the beach on Chappaquiddick Island one recent afternoon. Some startled fishermen-and Edgartown Police Chief Jessie J. Oliver III-recognized one of the trio as Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Two days before he was to announce his withdrawal as a candidate for President in 1976, there was Kennedy walking meditatively on the island where his White House hopes foundered five years...
...spectating fleet in itself was a sight, as the yachts jockied for front line position, often narrowly avoiding collisions in an attempt to see the thoroughbreds of sailboat racing up close. The passenger ferries came out packed to the railings with ogling tourists pushing and shoving to get a view. The large craft listed to the side facing the action as the mob jeered a patrol boat engaged in battle with the portly ferry, trying to herd it back behind the lines...
...young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman to help him put his sailboat on top of his car; one woman walked with him to his brown Volkswagen but backed away when she realized that there was no boat in sight. About three hours after Janice vanished, Denise Marie Naslund, 18, a dark-haired computer-programming student, left her sunbathing friends to go to a park...
...Every sailboat man dreams at some time of cruising across the Pacific, running for days under warm breezes, dropping anchor for weeks at islands with names like Raratonga. Citybound mariners mostly learn to content themselves with a few weeks' cruising on inland waters or slashing around the markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper...
...have the genetic disease. Sepe also caused a local furor last year by offering to release convicted child molesters and exhibitionists if they would take injections of a female hormone to lower their sex drive. Recently, when a psychiatrist reported that a youth who appropriated a 22-ft. sailboat had been "deprived of love and affection," Sepe ordered the defendant to live at home, seek psychiatric help and get a girl friend. That solution failed, and Sepe soon had to send the young man to a mental institution...