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With a smile, Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita surrendered the periscope, while above him, in a watertight compartment on the forecastle deck, waited his Geta float plane. In it, he was about to become the only Japanese flyer to bomb the U.S. mainland in World...
...wounds. He even irked Franco over Juan Carlos' engagement. Instead of consulting the touchy dictator in advance, he merely telephoned the Caudillo a few hours before the public announcement. Franco took the call aboard his yacht Azor, laid down the receiver after hearing the news, paced the deck, then returned to bicker icily over details, finally hung up without offering a word of congratulation...
...aluminum mast unstepped, her Honduras mahogany hull swathed in protective padding, Australia's sleek, 12-meter challenger for the America's Cup was ready last week for her voyage to the U.S.-as deck cargo aboard the freighter City of Sydney. For two months, Gretel (pronounced Great-ul) had been testing herself against her American trial horse, Vim, and stories about her speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic...
...shear," or deck profile, is "hogged" (i.e., slightly humped) so that her sails can be set higher to take advantage of the steadier breezes that blow well above the water's surface. "A kind of tax-free device, you might call it," says Sir Frank Packer, head of the three-man syndicate that built Gretel. Though U.S. yachtsmen have reservations about Gretel's design-some thought her "long-ended," said her fore-and-aft overhang might make her hobbyhorse in a brisk breeze-they conceded that the trim Australian boat might well be the toughest challenger...
...were on the winning end of much the same situation in an earlier race. Behind for the body of the race, stroke Dick Masland sprinted past the Middles at the finish, also for a deck length victory, in 9:10.2. Penn came in third, about three lengths behind the leaders...