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Sailor & Sportsman. It was a long sail for the newly built 12 meter. In the opening sets of trials, Eagle and her skipper William Cox seemed able to beat anything without wings. What made Connie the better boat eventually was a difficult-and genuinely sportsmanlike-move on the part of Eric Ridder, 46, her skipper and part owner. Though Ridder is a crackerjack blue-water sailor, he never could get the better of Eagle's Bill Cox. So he turned the start and the all-important windward legs over to his second in command, Bob Bavier, 46. "It takes...
...part of his "confrontation" with the Malaysian Federation. At Batam Tech, students get a month's intensive training in such subjects as judo and jellied explosives; on graduation day they receive, instead of a sheepskin, a time bomb or a grenade or a burp gun. Then they set sail to infiltrate the Malaysian territory of Singapore, where this year they have set off 20-odd bombs, killing two persons and injuring seven...
...interpret it as favoring Turkey). The Makarios regime was informed that the passenger steamship Amiassa would anchor off the Cypriot port of Famagusta and its 335 unarmed replacements would land, if permitted, while an equal number of unarmed outgoing troops, under United Nations escort, would board the Amiassa and sail home. If the replacements were not allowed to land, said Ankara, a Turkish army would invade Cyprus under naval escort and air cover and occupy as much of the island as was necessary to protect its detachment and the local Turkish Cypriots...
TIVOLI GARDENS PLAYGROUND is the fair's most delightful haven for very small children. Created by some of Denmark's best artists and architects, it has canals to sail boats on, a long, twisty slide that ends up in a sandbox, a Viking ship to climb over, a maze with magic mirrors, holes to stick small heads through, and other diversions...
...books in one of the temples, Perry responded by protesting against "the obscene books which the Japanese had given the sailors." But after a desperate effort on both sides to understand each other, this first encounter between two great nations of the Pacific ended amicably. As Perry prepared to sail for home, the Japanese came out to his flagship with the last of their presents, three small spaniels for President Millard Fillmore. 'They now thrive in Washington," he reported later, not unlike Lyndon Johnson...