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...Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade for the evening...
...Reserve. Last week, ready to sail home, the students reported on the land they had seen. Their favorite American: Eisenhower; their favorite state: Colorado. They had asked innumerable and pointed questions about Negro problems in the South, about isolationism in the Midwest. When one Midwesterner asked about the Marshall Plan, a French girl replied: "I do not wish to offend, but to properly discuss the Marshall Plan one should not eat for two days before...
...have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy ladders. No use. They showed him tail prints in the ventilators. No use. When the Pobeda threatened to sail on, the health inspector yelled to a Coast Guard cutter: "Shoot to sink if she moves fore...
...breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...song says, a polo player without a pony is like a ship without a sail. The recently reactivated Crimson polo team, which has just completed a six-game first postwar season, is probably the only aggregation of its kind ever to do the job under borrowed canvas...