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...Aussies, scuttled in their 1962 and 1967 bids for the Cup, arrived late in Newport and looked unimpressive in their victory over the hapless France. Just a week before meeting Intrepid, Skipper Jim Hardy and Designer Alan Payne decided to move Gretel II's mast 5¾ inches aft. So major a modification, made so late in the contest, suggested that the Australians were less than prepared to take on Intrepid's Skipper Bill Ficker and his finely drilled crew...
...that stretches 63 ft. in length. Broad in her forward sections and slim in the stern, she has been dubbed "the tadpole." Valiant's keel is smaller than the old Intrepid's, her trim tab larger. A Stephens innovation for 12-meters, the trim tab on the aft end of the keel helps to reduce drift to leeward and can be used as an auxiliary rudder in tight turns. Valiant's reverse transom rolls down more smoothly toward the waterline, reducing excess weight in hull and deck. As with Intrepid, Valiant's ten-man crew work...
NIGHT HAS fallen on a barge moving slowly down a French canal. Its crew, a halfwit body and a hulking old man, are forward with the young captain. His new bride is aft, trying to steer the ungainly boat by its heavy tiller. Her husband crawls back along the catwalk to her; silhouetted half over the water with face upturned his doubled over figure resembles some odd monster coming into the camera. He reaches her; they embrace and tumble to the deck. Their figures in medium close shot are indistinct, but the bridal gown she is still wearing burns white...
Harris has a different story. He maintains that during most of the period when he was reported to be standing around doing practically nothing, he was in fact aft, destroying classified material for which he was personally responsible. Other crew members saw him doing this, Harris told a TIME correspondent, but either they have not been called to testify as yet, or their testimony was completely classified...
...brave and ec centric act of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely at noon on Sunday, 42-year-old Gonzalo Arias hung a brace of white posters over his shoulders and began to stroll down thronged Calle de la Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded past crowded cafe tables. The consensus was that the man with...