Word: clippers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saddest story of all is Pan American's. Once the undisputed world leader of commercial aviation, Pan Am filled the skies with its elegant Clipper ships and, later, Boeing 747 jets. Yet in April, when Juan T. Trippe, one of the last of U.S. aviation's founding patriarchs, died at 81, the airline he established and built was barely scraping by, subsisting in part on $294.4 million from the sale of its Manhattan office building...
Hatamiya then showed the form which lifted Quincy over South House in last week's House championship game, hitting receiver par excellence Art "the Quincy Clipper" O'Keefe for 40 big yards. A pass interference call on the next play gave Quincy the ball on the Calhoun five, but after Nichols bulled to the one, a Hatamiya fumble squelched the drive, and the half ended with Quincy...
...minor last-minute scare, Quincy dominated the second half. After a key John Garvey fumble recovery on the Quincy 45, Hatamiya went to work, converting two clutch fourth and yardage situations for important first downs, before unloading a pinpoint 20-yard T.D. missile to Art "the Quincy Clipper" O'Keefe...
...breeze comes up, a microcomputer unfurls a pair of rectangular canvas sails and aligns them to the wind. Stretched tight by rigid metal frames, the 40-ft. by 26-ft. sails resemble windmill paddles more than the billowing canvases of a windjammer. Yet the sails enable this 20th century clipper to move at speeds of up to twelve knots under wind power...
...seven, but it was not until last year that he skippered a twelve, Turner's old Independence. Convinced that he could be competitive himself if only his boat were a little faster, Long raised $500,000 and stripped Independence for parts. The result: the deep blue Clipper and a helmsman brash enough to be Turner's son. "Ted peaked out in 1977," says Long. "He's been totally outclassed by Conner...