Word: australia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia...
...practice as four U.S. 12-meter yachts squared off in the final America's Cup elimination trials off Newport, R.I. If so, practice makes perfect. After five days of round-robin match racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial horse, Constellation, utterly crushed American Eagle-beating...
Sunday afternoon Harvard faces Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia--the crew which kept the Crimson out of the Olympics in 1964--and crews from New Zealand and Australia which finished first and second at the North Americans...
...Zealand and Australia will race in the tournament as guests, but the important competition will be between Harvard and Vesper who are competing for the title of U.S. Champion and the right to represent the United States at the European Championships in Vichy, France, next month...
...only will Australia and New Zealand be just as strong as at the North Americans, but Vesper will also be much more dangerous that at the Pan American Games trials last July. At that time Vesper was undergoing some reorganization, and the crew was not in top condition for the race. By this weekend they should have recaptured much of their power...