Word: blyth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between two big, custom-built racing machines, the 74-ft. ketch Pen Duick VI from France and the 72-ft. ketch Great Britain II. Both are captained by veteran sailors. Pen Duick Skipper Eric Tabarly won a singlehanded transatlantic race in 1964; Great Britain II's captain, Chay Blyth, made a solo circumnavigation three years...
...getting black businesses started. His only setback came in 1967 when he lost to Walter B. Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker offered him an irresistible challenge. Gauging Wilcox's reputation, one Crocker banker looks ahead and says, "A lot of people here will have to start working hard again...