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...Olympians to a deaf bodybuilder featured on the TV show American Gladiators -- will be competing for a spot in the world's most famous sailboat race. In a grueling round robin over the next three months, the women, recruited by 1992 Cup winner William Koch, will race veteran Dennis Conner and another all-male crew, PACT '95, for the single U.S. spot. Seven foreign syndicates, including a formidable Australian team, will compete separately against each other. In May, U.S. defender and foreign challenger face off for the best of nine races...
...Australians won in 1983 -- the first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer blend. As Whitbread veteran Merritt Carey, one of the two self-described "bow chicks...
...Guerrero Group Theatre presents Tiny Voices, five new short plays written and directed by Jordan Wine, including "The Misfit" which is based on a Flannery O'Conner story. Performances: March 17, 18, 19 at 8 p.m. March 20 at 7 p.m. At the Adams House Pool Theatre. Admission: $5. All money goes toward Project Bosnia to buy urgent medical suuplies. For info call J. Winer...
Harvard Film Archive. "Garden of Scorpions" at 2, 5 and 9 p.m. "Lyrical Nitrate/Bruce Conner Films" at 7 p.m. $5 for students. Carpenter Center...
Harvard Film Archive. "Garden ofScorpions" at 2, 5 and 9 p.m. "LyricalNitrate/Bruce Conner Films" at 7 p.m. $5 forstudents. Carpenter Center...