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HMS Bounty: Woman killed in tall ship's sinking loved the sea
L.A. NOWShe was bright, vivacious and in love with with her ship, the HMS Bounty. Claudene Christian, the former USC song girl who died at sea Monday when the tall ship on which she was sailing sank off the North Carolina...... -
The story of a Paralympian with full sails before the end
The venue for information gathering for today's column was lunch. Your typist was a fly on the wall. Mary Kate Scandone met Dottie Rountree. That's not exactly Kobe Bryant chatting with Matt Kemp. Actually, as it turned out, it was much better. Scandone...
Tags: Symptoms, Auto Racing, Kobe Bryant, Diseases and Illnesses, West Point
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London Olympics threatened with strike by border officials
World NowLondon Olympics face more disruption from striking border officials; Ministers and organizers say Games will not suffer... -
PASSINGS: R.G. Armstrong, Norman Alden, Ted Hinshaw, Neil Reed
R.G. Armstrong Actor a favorite of Peckinpah R.G. Armstrong, 95, a veteran character actor who started his career in the 1950s on Broadway, segued to television, then solidified his standing as a favorite of filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Warren Beatty,...Tags: Bank Robbery, James Earl Jones, Fedders Corporation, Finance, Robert Loggia
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Jim Drake dies at 83; aeronautical engineer created the Windsurfer
Aeronautical engineer Jim Drake had already solved the "puzzle" of pairing a surfboard with a sail when a young man who stopped to admire "the Baja Board" in the late 1960s suggested what he called "the perfect name": the Windsurfer. In his Santa...
Tags: Windsurfing, Jim Drake, Surfing, Respiratory Disease, Sports
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Family memories bubble to the surface in Maine
Special to the Los Angeles TimesReporting from Boothbay Harbor, Maine Early morning in a kayak on Linekin Bay. My paddle goes plash-plash. A gull gives me the hairy eyeball to warn me away from its nest. Across the water on the peninsula that ends at Ocean Point, a woman sits like a...Tags: Cabbage, China, Key Lime Pie, Popcorn, Trips and Vacations
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Cruises: Drinking in the ambience aboard Rotterdam VI
Rarely has a city been as in love with a shipping company as Rotterdam, Netherlands, is with the Holland America line.
So July 3, when the 1997 Rotterdam VI left the Netherlands' second-largest city for New York City, the Dutch turned out in force to...Tags: Laurel, Concerts, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Bill Miller, Ellis Island
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Smaller legs of world cruises can be a deal
The British couple — she in a long black dress, he in a traditional tux — leaned against the elevator's polished wood paneling as they headed back to their cabin after an evening performance in the main showroom. Embarrassed at my casual...Tags: Hank Aaron, Jerry Mathers, Bill Bryson, Bob Graham, Uruguay
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Slain Idaho football player had just been awarded full scholarship
L.A. NOWThe family of a University of Idaho student athlete slain early Sunday in Lincoln Heights was preparing to hold a surprise party for him this week in honor of his having received a full football scholarship for the upcoming year.... -
$100-million pot farm destroyed in Topanga State Park raid
L.A. NOWAuthorities have uncovered a 34,000-plant marijuana farm in Topanga State Park -- the largest such operation found in the Santa Monica Mountains in seven years. Law enforcement officials raided the site Friday after park rangers found a plastic-lined... -
Accident that killed four in yacht race to be probed by U.S. Sailing
L.A. NOWA boat accident that left four competitors in the annual Newport-to-Ensenada yacht race dead off the coast of Mexico will be reviewed by the national organization that governs the sport of sailing, it was announced Monday. U.S. Sailing has appointed...... -
Ex-L.A. County sheriff's deputy convicted of mayhem, torture, rape
L.A. NOWA former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy accused of torturing and sexually assaulting his wife and her lover — leaving both badly mutilated — was convicted Monday in the 2008 crime. Robert McClain, 38, of Irvine forced his then 31-...
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