Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier this summer, yachtsmen had little doubt that Eagle and her brilliant skipper Bill Cox, 52, would fly away with the prize. In two sets of preliminary trials during June and July, Eagle won twelve straight races, including three from Constellation, whose crew could not seem to do anything right...
...From left: Washington March Leader Bayard Rustin, N.A.A.C.P. Attorney Jack Greenberg, National Urban League Executive Director Whitney M. Young Jr., CORE Director James Farmer, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, King, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman John Lewis, Negro American Labor Council Chief A. Philip Randolph, Student Leader Courtney Cox...
...right knees: "Beat the Bird." That was about the size of it. As the second series of America's Cup trials neared an end, anyone who hoped to defend the cup for the U.S. against Britain this September had to beat American Eagle and her brilliant skipper, Bill Cox. In six official races in the current series, the big new twelve-meter has defeated Constellation once, Nefertiti once, Columbia twice, Easterner twice. Her overall record in the first two series of trials: twelve victories, no losses...
...York Yacht Club selection committee wanted to lay the mark, Eagle was the superior boat, her crew the better crew. Only three times all summer has Cox lost a start; on rapid-fire tacking duels, his smoothly clicking crewmen usually pick up two or three seconds per tack (Cox started out with an intercom system to issue commands, has now dispensed with it because everyone has hand signals down pat). Cox makes the boat point higher and foot faster than any of her four rivals. In ten legs of windward work in the present series, she has gained a brisk...
...around the first two marks when the race was called on account of fog. On the strength of that performance, the Eagle eye is sure to be on Constellation in next month's final trials. But most of the experts are still giving the edge to Skipper Bill Cox...