Word: cupful
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...occasion for this beery bedlam was the end of the 18th America's Cup competition. Once more, as it has for 111 years, the battered silver trophy remained securely in the U.S. Going into the week with a 3-to-1 edge, the U.S.'s brilliant Bus Mosbacher swiftly closed out the best 4-of-7 series. In the kind of breezy (10 to 17 knots) but not blowy day that Weatherly likes best, he beat Gretel's Jock Sturrock to the start, soon had a healthy lead and increased it with every mark...
...Mosbacher, skipper of the successful America's Cup defender. Weatherly, has donated a perpetual trophy for the winner of the Ivy League sailing championship...
...year history of the America's Cup, 17 challengers had gone down to defeat before superior U.S. boats and superior U.S. seamanship. Of 55 races, the challengers had won only five*-and the last boat to do it was Britain's Endeavour, 28 years ago. But last week, off Newport, R.I., Australia's Gretel and Skipper Jock Sturrock proved to be unawed by the statistics. In the first four races of the best-of-seven series, the Aussies lost three to the U.S. defender, Weatherly, and her quiet genius, Bus Mosbacher. But Gretel...
...past, Mosbacher's Yanks heard a roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late. Gretel was home free, 47 sec. ahead in 2 hr. 46 min. 58 sec., the fastest 24-mile Cup race ever sailed by a 12-meter yacht...
...success of that Russian Davis Cup team caused a bit of a scandal down in Melbourne, they say. The foreigners kept winking at the Australian coach...