Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspense as he pursues his harried hero to a brilliant climactic confrontation with the enemy in the Swiss Alps. And he gains much in terms of audience identification with, and genuine concern for, a man who, like the rest of us, would cheerfully have allowed the heroic cup to pass him by, but grips it with enviable firmness when there is no other choice...
From the moment he arrived in Newport last June with his twelve-meter yacht Southern Cross, Alan Bond has been upsetting the genteel traditions of America's Cup competition. First the Australian land promoter and mining tycoon uncrated 20,000 cans of Aussie Courage beer in a resort that prefers champagne or gin-and-tonics. Then he gave in to his crassly commercial instincts, briefly sporting the name of his own 20,000-acre development on the transom of his yacht. Finally, Southern Cross's tender rudely ran an opposition boat off its practice course...
Southern Cross took an important step in that direction last week when she swept a best-four-of-seven series against the French hope, France, to become the official challenger for the Cup. By this week Bond should know which American vessel Southern Cross will face off Newport in the final races that begin Sept. 10: the new aluminum Courageous, backed by an East Coast syndicate, or Intrepid, the wooden, two-time Cup winner from California...
...protest during the race, Bond is ready with a rules expert and lawyer, plus a video-tape camera to record all races for replay. "Expert advocacy," says Bond, "is as much a part of racing now as a boat." All this may offend the guardians of the Cup, but Bond is not concerned. "To say this is a gentleman's sport is to be under illusions," he insists. "Those days are gone...
...layers to troopships during World War II but was best known for his designs of sailboats, among them the popular 11½-ft. Penguin dinghy, Bounty II, one of the first successful fiber-glass ocean racers, and the twelve-meter sloop Weatherly, winner of the 1962 America's Cup races; in New Rochelle...