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...International Hotel, the Early American Inn became the Australia II Inn, its Statue of Liberty decked with the Australian flag, a stuffed koala bear placed in an arm. The stock exchanges saw a surge in shares connected with any enterprise of Perth Entrepreneur Alan Bond, Australia II's backer...
...waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport in that one race...
...steamroller the Cup and turn it into the "America's Plate," received from Stone a mangled hubcap. "I don't think there's any other country we'd rather see have the Cup," said Stone, adding that he had already been contacted by a backer willing to take up the challenge whenever the Australians defend...
...York. Tong's 250-lb. ultralight plane made the trip in a record 18 days. But Tong was not fast enough to escape arrest for a bad check he had dropped in Grand Rapids, Minn., during the trip. Police let Tong go when he made restitution (a reneging backer had caused the check to bounce, he said), and off he flew, talking enthusiastically of making an ultralight flight to the North Pole...
...blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret keel has been the target of camera-wielding scuba divers from rival camps. One local cartoon lampooned the mysterious keel by depicting it in the shape of a bottle of Swan Lager, a major corporate backer of the Australia II effort...