Word: cupful
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America's Cup yacht racing is one of the few sports in which the losers are often better remembered than the winners. The most famous figure in the 116-year history of the cup is Britain's Sir Thomas Lipton, who tried five times to wrest it away from the U.S. Australia's Sir Frank Packer, 60, is obviously cast from the Lipton mold...
Harvard's sailing team, winner of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Cup in 1965, will face nine of the nation's top crews at the U.S Naval Academy next weekend to try to recapture the trophy that has become, in its three year history, emblematic of college sailing supremacy...
Tufts, which won the McMillan Cup last fall over nine Eastern crews including Harvard and Navy, ranks as a co-favorite for the race with the University of California at Berkeley, whose boat will be skippered by Scot Allen, the assistant helmsman on Columbia, an America's Cup hopeful...
Blitman, surrounded by white levis and old tweed jackets, orders a Bartley's Buns 21. The price--$1.10--is steep, but, after all, this is lunch. The Buns 21 boasts two Bartley burgers, two buns, and some scattered potato chips. Accessories include a little paper cup of cole slaw--about one blue plastic forkful--and a pickle. Two pickles if you know Florence. He also orders a large coke for twenty-five cents. Five minutes later, he's done. A ten cent tip for Florence. And don't forget to get a twelve cent box of crackerjacks at the cashier...
...Blitman's day is a foregone conclusion. At three in the morning, he puts on his wrap-around sunglasses, jams The Sot Weed Factor into his pocket, and goes to the Bick. Since that first cup of coffee at the UR he has spent $4.45 on food and tips. Now he will end it all at the Bick...