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...education spending levels are expected to sail through the Senate with little trouble, Congressional aides predicted yesterday. Legislators are expected to provide unqualified support foreducation this year because they believe it willimprove American economic competitiveness, Harvardofficials have said...
...Atlantic in a 40-ft. ketch. There was Michel (the father, the Frenchman, the architect) and Janis (the mother, the Californian, the first mate), and their little boy Sean and his baby brother Brendan, as newborn at the time as his father's dream -- everyman's dream -- to sail away...
...else. I don't like surprises. I planned Brendan three years after Sean, so we decided we would leave with two kids. Michel and I both had our appendixes out. Michel had his wisdom teeth out." Having seen to these precautionary surgeries, there was nothing for it but to sail, and in late summer of 1982 the wind blew them to Spain, then Portugal, then Africa...
...soon the Couvreux family will sail away again. Through the Panama Canal and up the west coast to Alaska, they think, and eventually to Tahiti, of course, and one year or another, Michel says, "we go to France so my boys can be French too." When they are at sea, the boys take correspondence courses that are accredited in France. When anchored, Michel feels schools are important for social intercourse. "They must know there are little girls" (yes, thank heaven, he said, "leetel gulls") "and good guys and bad guys and all those things...
There were conflicting reports on just how the accident occurred. It happened at 7:50 p.m. just after the ferry, loaded with people and vehicles, pulled out of the harbor for what would be a 4 -hour sail. Seas were calm near the harbor...