Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...navigator's." When photographers asked him to pose drinking beer with the boys in the pub, Heath replied: "No, thanks. I've got whisky in the plane." Journalists found his electioneering style dreary compared with Wilson. "Covering Heath," complained one reporter, "is like covering El Salvador in the World Cup matches...
...Wilson gave little heed to the issues, voters paid less attention to Heath's attempts to raise them. For one thing, the British were distracted by the World Cup Soccer matches in Mexico City, where the British team is defending its championship title...
Building a better 12-meter racing yacht for the America's Cup is a bit like trying to reshape Raquel Welch. A naval architect can trim her here, pad her there, but what counts in the end is how well all the parts move together. Last week, after years of designing and testing, the three U.S. contenders for the 1970 America's Cup showed their shapes in public in a five-day series of trial races. Snub-nosed and broad-beamed, none would win a yachting beauty contest. Yet once they were under sail, all their parts seemed...
Hard fought though they were, the preliminaries have little bearing on which of the three slender sloops will be selected to defend the cup for the U.S. That will be decided in the final trials off Newport, R.I., beginning Aug. 18. Nonetheless, the races afforded yachting fans their first look at the sleek new fleet of U.S. 12-meters. The differences are subtle, for under the restrictive and complex formula for the 12-meter class,breakthroughs are carefully measured in inches and ounces. The U.S. boats: VALIANT is the early favorite for the simple reason that her designer, Olin Stephens...
...warm afternoon last week, as the citizens of Lima talked excitedly about the opening of the World Cup soccer tournament in Mexico City, an all-too-familiar convulsion shook the city, accompanied by what sounded like the muffled beat of a million drums. The early news seemed reassuring. In all of Lima, only three persons had died, two of heart attacks, and only a few old houses had been toppled. As the hours wore on, however, alarming reports began to arrive from the northern departments. The seaport of Chimbote lay in ruins. The departmental capital of Huar...