Word: bus
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...fastest boats Britain could muster. Every challenger has returned home emptyhanded. In 1958 Britain's Sceptre went down to a humiliating four straight defeats by the U.S.'s Columbia; two years ago, Australia's Gretel lost 4-1 to Weatherly and its master tactician Bus Mosbacher. Now it is Britain's turn again, and the Royal Thames Yacht Club means to make a sterner test of it. Off Newport, R.I., this summer, two new British twelves will fight it out for the right to challenge the U.S. in the best-of-seven series. They are Sovereign...
...Plus Three. That may take some doing. Weatherly is resting peacefully in a Connecticut boatyard, and Bus Mosbacher is busy in Manhattan minding his oil investment business. "I've had it," he says. "Never again-though I might buy a powerboat to watch the races." But the U.S. is hardly begging for Cup defenders. Last week a spanking new U.S. twelve went down the ways; a second new twelve was launched the week before, and three veteran boats were fitting out to compete for the honor of defending the "auld...
...finals beginning Aug. 17. It is far too early for yachtsmen to talk about a favorite for the Cup defense off Newport on Sept. 15. But the odds favor the new boats. Only once in the past has an older boat won out. And that was Weatherly, with Bus Mosbacher doing the sailing...
...Florsheim, 84, Chicago transportation tycoon, one of the founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and a scion of the Florsheim shoe family who, with his friend John Hertz, founded the Yellow Cab Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. (the hub of the Chicago Transit Authority's bus routes) and the Omnibus Corp., later to become the Hertz Corp.; after a long illness; in Chicago...