Thankful for small mercies
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LESLIE POWLES, voted Yachtsman of the Year for 1981 by the Yachting Journalists' Association, was formerly a quality-control surveyor at British Leyland. During the last two months of his recordbreaking voyage around the world, in which he spent 329 days alone at sea, his daily diet comprised half a cup of rice, sometimes flavoured with milk powder and sugar, and boiled rainwater.
He should be an ideal person to teach railway drivers, BL and other workers to see life in perspective and count their blessings.
BABY-KISSING, the voteseeking politician's traditional standby, is seldom required of bus drivers. But it was the kiss of life by the driver that saved a four-month-old baby who stopped breathing on a bus from Barnsley to Pontefract.
Passengers voted Jack Fieldhouse, of South Kirkby, hero of the hour.