Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week to no less than Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, 45, the brilliant skipper who piloted Weatherly to victory in the 1962 America's Cup races against Australia, and is favored to do the same with Intrepid this year. There was Intrepid, skipping merrily across Long Island Sound, en route to an easy victory over American Eagle in last week's preliminary cup trials. Then Bus steered the wrong way around a buoy, had to come about -and thereby converted a 56-sec. lead into a 1-min. 2-sec. defeat...
...skeg," or fin, has been added to her bottom to make her stiffer in the water, her stern has been shortened 2 ft. 5 in., her deck has been replaced, and her mast has been stepped aft about 1 ft. so that she can fly a bigger genoa. Now en route by freighter to New York, Columbia will not get into action until July, but Designer Stephens has assured Dougan that her new shape and fittings will make her "competitive...
...Hoeydonck's panoramas are meant to show the effluvia that will float past the porthole or radar screens of future capsules en route to distant galaxies. In Radar #V, he covers the view with a layer of colored Plexiglas partly because it creates a bloodcurdlingly realistic mood of objects adrift on an uncharted sea. Van Hoeydonck maintains that he is not trying to frighten people. "All I'm trying to do," he says, "is be a kind of reporter of the future...
...part in the Paris Air Show, the U.S. went all out, displaying sophisticated aircraft and spacecraft and flying two Sikorsky jet helicopters last week from Brooklyn all the way to Le Bourget Airport-the first nonstop crossing of the North Atlantic by whirlybird (they were refueled en route). Britain and France also put their best fleet forward with striking new military and civilian aircraft and a full-scale model of their jointly developed supersonic transport, the Concorde. But it was the Russians who stole the show, simply by taking the wraps off space hardware-some of it a decade...
Caprice. A skier in white schusses down a slope. In his tracks comes a skier in black, firing a rifle en route. A shot hits its mark, the man in white bites the snow, and the film is off on another chapter in the further adventures of Doris Day, girl woman...