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...affiliate, and a syndicated version is now heard on more than 50 stations across the U.S. Deluged with up to 20,000 calls a night, the three superfans attack what they call the "hidden injuries of class" by blasting everyone from politicians who hog tickets to the "phony, bigoted yachtsmen of the New York Yacht Club." Though they have broadened their attack to suit their national audience, they still hit home the hardest. Among their favorite targets are Boston Red Sox Manager Eddie Kasko ("A mealymouthed marshmal-low") and Bruin Star Bobby Orr ("He's not the humble, gracious...
...laser beam-pure light of a single frequency-they have refined the measurement of light's speed to 186,282.3960 miles per second. In effect they reduced the accepted speed by roughly 144 feet per second. This may not seem important to camera fans worrying about exposure, or yachtsmen timing a flashing light on a dark night. But it could make a considerable difference to scientists calculating the precise landing site of an astronaut, or astronomers studying immense celestial distances which are measured in light years. Most important of all, man will have a more exact knowledge...
...Most yachtsmen are eager to keep waterways clean and clear. They want to swim and fish over the side without encountering colon bacteria and other health hazards. And until recently, they never thought of themselves as polluters. Although the traditional marine "head" simply flushes wastes through the side of the boat and into the water, such sewage, thanks to nature's purifying processes, used to be only a modest problem in fresh waters and no problem at all in tide-flushed coastal waters...
While it was laid up, the Indians cadged rides with sympathetic yachtsmen and rented boats with the meager funds donated to them. They have been able to transport a fairly steady supply of fresh water, which is hauled laboriously up the steep, rocky slopes in five-gallon cans. A generator has been installed but, ill-maintained, it breaks down regularly...
...campers, yachtsmen, private-airplane pilots and snowmobilers, a company named Relevant Products Inc. of Louisville has come up with the Safe-T-Cell, a compact 2-lb. super-first-aid kit. Crammed into a sturdy polyethylene cylinder are tourniquets, bandages, antiseptics, adhesive tape, aspirin, rescue blanket, waterproof matches, nylon cord, a compass and even chocolate. Marine, aircraft and camper versions sell for $13.95; a more elaborate marine model, which also contains a mouth-to-mouth resuscitator, goes...