Word: architects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's Cup in September, midsummer is the time for a series of shakedown races called the Observation Trials. As it happened, some of the most telling observations about this year's competition could be made right at dockside in Newport, R.I. Late into the night, Naval Architect Olin Stephens was seen tinkering with Valiant, his latest 12-meter design. Near by, Skipper-Designer Charlie Morgan Jr. was hard at work seeking to improve his golden-hulled Heritage. At another slip, the crew of Helmsman Bill Picker's Intrepid lounged on the sloop's deck, sporting...
...Picker, 42, a prosperous architect from Newport Beach, Calif., Intrepid's showing was fitting answer to those skeptics who felt that he was not up to handling a tricky 12-meter. Though he was co-helmsman of Columbia in the 1967 cup trials, most of his experience is in ocean racers and smaller one-design boats. Nevertheless, Picker, the Star Class world champion in 1958, has proved his contention that the tactics he learned in small boats would serve him well in the America's Cup. A tall, totally bald man, he resembles the thin...
Political Persuader. The grand jury's action was as unusual as the case itself. Frenkil filed requests for additional fees from the Government, contending that the soil conditions encountered during construction were different from those described in the bid specifications prepared by the Architect of the Capitol and made construction more difficult than anticipated. When the office of the AOC began rejecting his claims, he took his case to Congress...
When we build a course, says Golf Course Architect Robert Trent Jones, "we think of ourselves as being in combat with the golfer. We're on the defense, and he's on the attack...
...picture mechanics for Vogue and London's Sunday Times. He also lends his refined eye to Britain's Council of Industrial Design. It was Snowdon who, in a speech to the nation's souvenir manufacturers, condemned most of their output as "low British rubbish." A trained architect (though he flunked his Cambridge exams) and a wizard handyman, Snowdon designed the impressive new aviary at the London Zoo and an improved motorized wheelchair. In sum, he calculates that he spends 80% of his life being Antony Armstrong-Jones and 20% being Lord Snowdon...