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...prepare for the role, Courtenay studied photographs of Czechoslovakian Runner Emil Zatopec, showing a face contorted by the strain of the marathon. Behind a camera truck, Courtenay ran for mile after mile, imitating Zatopec. But the real skill of his performance is more apparent when he is testing the roadworthiness of a stolen car, sitting home watching a peer on the telly, or walking a Skegness beach with his girl. In the first instance he displays pure boyish enthusiasm, then boyish iconoclasm, then a thoroughgoing experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right...
After a two-week rest, Skipper Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher and Weatherly's ten-man crew got together again in Newport at week's end. Mosbacher watched Gretel under sail after the mast shift and politely pronounced her "very good, very fast" in tacking and jibbing drills. Then he set about the business of putting Weatherly back in the water for the final days of practice on the sail trimming and flying starts that made the yacht unbeatable in the trials...
Sailing is one sport in which an athlete is supposed to improve with age. Cornelius Shields, the grand master of U.S. sailing, is 67, and he insists: "I learn something new each day." At 40, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher is practically a prodigy. Yet last week, as the America's Cup 12-meter trials got under way in the wind-rippled waters off Newport, R.I., Mosbacher turned in a performance that would be difficult for anyone to beat. As skipper of Weatherly, a good, but never before great yacht, Mosbacher drove her to four brilliant victories in a row against...
...Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Emil George Salinger's first trip to Russia, and he had come with commissions of the utmost gravity: to improve communications between the world's two leading powers and to arrange a swap of television appearances between his boss and the boss of all the Russians, Nikita Khrushchev. Alas for unlucky Pierre-he never had a chance. From the moment he was met by Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, the swart, short, 36-year-old ex-reporter from San Francisco found himself up to his cigar butt...
...Princeton back on the theological map was Scotland-born John Alexander Mackay (rhymes with high), seminary president from 1936 to 1959. Although conservative, he was open to new trends in the church, brought in as lecturers such famed theologians as Emil Brunner of Zurich. "Mackay brought real excitement to the faculty," says Eugene Carson Blake, the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Mackay also doubled both the seminary's enrollment and its endowment, started the school's first doctoral program, founded the lively highbrow quarterly, Theology Today...