Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power to Bus Mosbacher, but knowledgeable sailors will tell you that the America's Cup race proves only that in those tricky airs and waters, we have a built-in advantage. These days there is precious little difference technologically between challenged and challengers, and until the race takes place in neutral waters, it will remain simply a trial of skill between a skipper who has spent his life on these waters and one who hasn...
...beauty, largely because of her mouth-or rather, the buck teeth that make her look like a young Eleanor Roosevelt. "I smile with my hand over my mouth," she explains, "so no one will see the spinach." Her figure, in the simile of one friend, "is like a cup of tea-all the sugar went to the bottom." Partly because of indiscriminate eating of heavy Russian food, she has lately swelled to 132 Ibs. (at 5 ft. 4| in.), twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into a girdle; she also shuns...
Everything that went before was supposed to be just practice as four U.S. 12-meter yachts squared off in the final America's Cup elimination trials off Newport, R.I. If so, practice makes perfect. After five days of round-robin match racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial...
...Eagle, which had yet to win a race. Constellation's status was shaky, too, after she blew a 1 min. 3 sec. lead and lost to Columbia by 4 min. 16 sec. The likeliest candidate was Columbia, the rebuilt (at a cost of $125,000) 1958 Cup winner, which was refurbished all over again after losing twice to Intrepid in last month's observation trials, and her mainsheet winch was now located below decks...
...another, explains his father, "Bus is extremely patriotic. He's no flag waver, but keeping the Cup here is very important to him." Finally, the Intrepid syndicate, managed by Philadelphia Banker William Strawbridge, offered him a chance to collaborate from the start with Architect Olin Stephens on the design of the yacht. Bus agreed, and eight models, 35 modifications, 18 months of tank tests and $750,000 later, Intrepid slid down the ways at City Island, N.Y., last April-the shortest (at 64 ft.), homeliest, most radical and most expensive 12-meter yacht ever built...