Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after Australia won the America's Cup in 1983, TIME Correspondent John Dunn, based in Melbourne, flew to Fremantle, where this year's competition was scheduled to be held. "I had not been there before because there had never been any reason to go," says Dunn. "Fremantle was a fading city, tired and tatty, with peeling paint and broken-down buildings...
...piece, written by Associate Editor J.D. Reed, on the intricacies of 12-meter racing. "In almost 20 years with TIME, I have never covered a comparable event," he observes. "It seems to have gone on for so long that it is hard to believe there is life without a Cup story...
...single man's quest for victory." He believes Conner's greatest growth since 1983 has been in his ability to get good people and allow himself to rely on them. Will his team win? Or will Parry and Murray's Kookaburra mates refuse to yield the Cup? As the racing began, most experts favored Conner, but Australian Skipper John Bertrand, who won the Cup in 1983, loyally picked Kookaburra, 4-3. Ronald Reagan and Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke could not stay out of the guessing game. In a phone call two weeks ago, the President offered...
...America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel. In 1983 the news was not only that it was lost but that it was losable. A 132-year winning streak, the longest in all sport, was broken over the ample shoulders of San Diego Skipper Dennis Conner, the best and unlikeliest sailor in the world. He means to win it back this week...
...Tribune, "in the horse-racing sense of the term." Meaning the result was pretty well arranged. If the rules were not rigged, they were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away on a winged keel three years ago and relocated it in a western backwater near Perth, only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed. Only Conner cried...