Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invited them," replied the New York Yacht Club. And sure enough, there they were last week, slicing through the swells of Rhode Island Sound-two of the handsomest, most dangerous twelve-meter yachts to visit U.S. waters. Some time between now and the start of the America's Cup races on Sept. 15, the Royal Thames Yacht Club as challenger will choose either Sovereign or Kurrewa V to wrest away the ugly "auld mug" that has been in U.S. hands ever since the competition started 113 years and 18 fruitless challenges...
Double Trouble. All through the months of May and June, Sovereign and Kurrewa V tried their sails against each other in home waters off the Isle of Wight. Now they are off Newport, learning the tricky tides and winds on the 24.3-mile Cup course itself. At the end of the first week, two things seemed obvious: either twelve could give the Yanks trouble-and the Royal Thames is in for a devil of a job deciding which boat that shall...
...year or so before he is born, by picking his parents right. They must raise the child with at least a summer home on river, lake or sea front. They need not be rich, though that helps. (Shields picked a rich father.) The aspiring skipper of America's Cup yachts must begin sailing-and sailing to win-early in his grade school years...
...eight chances to show his will to win at the starting line, at the windward mark, and again at the leeward mark. Then, perhaps, the fledgling sailor may be considered qualified to crew for the likes of Corny Shields, in International One-Designs, or America's Cup 12-meters, or in ocean-going yachts in the biennial Bermuda races...
...much as he sees himself: a man of rocklike integrity and boundless Christian charity. Says one ex-pupil: "His kindness was overwhelming, without ever being in the least sentimental; without even, perhaps, .being personal. He raised the great beaker of his hope to my lips like a communion cup and watched with grave countenance as I drank, and when he took it away, I knew that it was because I had had enough...