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Died. Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 92, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet during World War II from 1942-44; in Bethesda, Md. A spare, taciturn man, Ingersoll directed the fight against German U-boats and oversaw the escort of U.S. troops and supplies crossing the battle-soaked Atlantic. Later, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, he poured men and materiel into the fight against Japan...
...Crimson squad started terribly Sunday, after getting only one hour of practice in the King's Point 420's Saturday. By Tuesday, however, the skippering of Tom Repps and Tony Leggett moved the Crimson squad from 14th to eighth in the 15-boat fleet before heading back to Cambridge...
...Jeremy Thorpe, 47, for nine years leader of Britain's gadfly Liberal Party and at one time one of the most enterprising figures on the British political scene, a bowler-hatted Etonian who would slog through department stores and cow pastures to greet voters and was a Fleet Street favorite. Yet for more than four months, Thorpe had been politically besieged because of allegations that he had been involved in a homosexual relationship in the early 1960s-a charge that, it gradually became clear, either Thorpe or some of his well-meaning but inept friends had been trying...
...With $6.3 billion already requested to build new ships for the Navy, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to add another $1.2 billion. The total would build 21 ships for the U.S. fleet...
Radcliffe's streak ended rather dramatically in the blustery winds. Mack capsized in her last race, and though she and crew Laura Brown managed to bail out the boat and finish the race 20 minutes behind the rest of the fleet, MIT cut the lead to two points...