Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa, Democratic gains extended to the House, e.g., onetime Young Democrats National President Neal E. Smith defeated eight-term Republican Paul Cunningham, whose past pluralities had been dropping and who had lost important labor support...
...three other districts. In the Second (Cedar Rapids-Dubuque) district, veteran Henry O. Talle, ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee, carried only 51.3% of the district in 1956 against Democrat Leonard Wolf, who has been campaigning ever since. In the Fifth (Des Moines) district, Republican Paul Cunningham won by only 51.1% in 1956, is slightly favored over Democrat Neal Smith, who is hurt by a split in the Polk County party organization...
...seasoned crew headed by Helmsman Briggs Cunningham handled the victor with professional skill, but the races were apparently decided months before in a special testing tank at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. There, Olin Stephens tested various scale-model hull designs under all kinds of simulated speeds and heels. He went ahead to develop on the drawing board the graceful contour lines that turned out to be Columbia. (The British were testing, too-and in tanks patterned after those of the Stevens Institute...
Again it was sheer murder. Columbia, with weatherbeaten Briggs Cunningham at the helm, raced to a 600-yard lead on the first six-mile windward leg of the 24-mile course. Cunningham increased the advantage with brilliant sailing both into the wind and with colorful spinnaker runs...
...shape and to take the helm himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual who is most responsible for Columbia's basic speed: Designer Olin Stephens, 50, world's best yacht architect...