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...courage and statesmanship unparalleled by any U.S. chief executive for at least a third of a century," and the Baltimore Sun approved "an activist flexing of government muscles not seen since the early Roosevelt experiments." "No longer," noted the Miami Herald, "is the American economy all sail and no rudder." Cartoonists portrayed Nixon variously as a parody of Roosevelt, ministering belatedly to a crippled economy, or carping at his critics before television cameras...
Grander Suspicion. On May 25, 1969, Heyerdahl- 54 years old, lean, and tan- again put out to sea, nagged by an even grander suspicion. Reviewing 60 cultural parallels between ancient Peru and ancient Egypt (including pyramids and reed boats), Heyerdahl asked himself: It Peruvians could sail by bal sa raft to the Polynesian islands, might not the Egyptians have sailed by reed boat to Peru? Or at least from Mo rocco to Mexico...
...heart of all travelers in the tradition of Odysseus. On one page he can call his ship a golden paper swan, and on another, a floating haystack. Steering oars snapped with annoying regularity, and two days out a squall cracked the yard, carrying the 26-ft.-high wine-colored sail with a rust-red sun painted on it: the symbol of Ra. When the whole structure of papyrus and ropes expanded and contracted, it sounded, Heyerdahl confessed, like 100,000 copies of the Sunday New York Times being torn to shreds...
When the ketch Phoenix, manned by U.S. pacifists, was blocked by a Chinese patrol boat as it tried to sail up the Yangtze two years ago, Dartmouth History Professor Jonathan Mirsky leaped into the water. He was desperately trying to deliver to the Chinese a gift from a group of Maoist Japanese students. The patrol boat veered away. That was the closest Mirsky had got to China in 13 years of studying it. His ploy was the most bizarre in a long series of attempts by American students of China to make some sort of contact with the People...
...time." Sentimental or not, he personally ensures that every community he visits cleans up its riverfront. In that, he may or may not succeed this week when he takes his charges to New York. On a barge provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, Boudreau will sail the superpolluted Hudson and East rivers to give concerts at Yonkers and the Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Then back to the farm. How about a conducting job in New York? "It would kill me. I'm a barge man. And besides, I gotta...