Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the first 400 miles of her trip, Michèle encountered the Viet Cong only once-on Christmas Day. Cheerfully pointing to herself, she kept repeating "Phap," the Vietnamese word for French. The startled Viet Cong gave her a cup of tea and sent her on her way. The incident may have left her a mite overconfident. When military officers at De Due warned her not to proceed any farther along Highway 1 because North Vietnamese regiments were thought to be in the vicinity, she blithely disregarded them...
...very graceful," said Graham Allison '62, teaching fellow in Government, lobbing an orange missile into a Quincy House Senior Common Room coffee cup...
Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
...Under, U.S. naval architects-discounted the idea of anything radical in Dame Pattie-except for a rudder that is wider at the head than at the heel. "Her deck plan is almost an exact reproduction of the Constellation's"-the U.S. boat that won the America's Cup in 1964-said Olin Stephens, who designed Constellation and the newest U.S. twelve-meter, Intrepid. But Stephens had second thoughts. "I wish I could see," he said, "what makes Pattie so fast...
Hood, of course, wasn't telling-although he was already talking about building still another boat that would "carry my design theories to the ultimate, and be minutes faster than Dame Pattie." But that would probably have to wait until after next summer's America's Cup races off Rhode Island. In the meantime, Hood is concentrating on more current projects-like trying to figure out why Dame Pattie's mast keeps snapping off. In a race against Gretel two weeks ago, Dame Pattie was leading by 5 min., only 250 yds. from the finish line...