Word: downwinder
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Late in the afternoons, Painter made the martinis (while Conrad "held the vermouth a bit downwind"). With Painter playing the harmonica and Conrad the guitar, the children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and the aspen trees, past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water...
...victory then was due in large part flawless spinnaker work of Horn, John Kimbell, and George who will be at the lines today and . Although second or third boat windward mark, the varsity swept the fleet on the downwind leg six and then hung on to its lead for victory...
...important than ratings. An unprecedented number of public-affairs shows this season are sponsored. Says NBC's Gitlin: "We want no charity in this area. The days of the Sunday afternoon intellectual ghetto are gone." But it still takes courage for a sponsor to go all the way downwind with a good public-affairs program. The most notable example this season is the Bell & Howell Camera Co., which backed the ABC Close-Up! survey of racial prejudice in the North. Closeup! has also had a turbulent look at Haiti, plans ABC programs on water pollution, featherbedding and Communism...
...times Ford rounded the windward mark in second or third place. Six times the lightning spinnaker of Mike Horn, John Kimbell, and George Pring put the Crimson ahead on the downwind leg; and, six times they stayed ahead...
...retractable centerboard to keep her steady in the water. Below decks she is as roomy as any family cruiser, is loaded down with such superfluous gear as an ice-making machine, a hi-fi set and a second head. Even so, the heavy Finisterre drives well to windward, boils downwind with her centerboard up. More important, because Finisterre's lines are far from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage...