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...Bavier, 46, advertising manager for Yachting Magazine and long known as one of the East Coast's hottest sailors. All of a sudden the crew seemed to come together, and the big white boat started to move. Constellation had a 100-yd. lead on Eagle before fog rolled in to cancel the race. Bavier was back at the helm when the sloops met again in the New York Yacht Club cruise races, which do not count toward cup selection but can have considerable effect on crew morale. In six races Constellation sailed home ahead four times-and now Eagle...
...twelve-meter. Under the command of Eric Ridder, Constellation lost her first three races against Eagle. But last week Relief Helmsman Bob Bavier, 46, a veteran blue-water sailor, took over, and Constellation led Eagle around the first two marks when the race was called on account of fog. On the strength of that performance, the Eagle eye is sure to be on Constellation in next month's final trials. But most of the experts are still giving the edge to Skipper Bill...
...from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint of rain, infrequently traveled, perilous and lonely, yet exhilarating as a first trip to Chartres...
...tons of chemical compounds-hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides-pour from 3.5 million exhaust pipes. When there is no breeze, and the exhaust-laden air is trapped in the mountain-rimmed Los Angeles basin, the bright Southern California sunshine, which could be expected to burn off a simple, old-fashioned fog, goes to work on the invisible gases until a giant photochemical reaction takes place. The pallid, evil-smelling vapor that results is known as smog...
Approaching Barnes, the pilot was flying on instruments. At about 11 p.m., he told the tower that he was "over the 'Z' "-exactly on course. Looking out of the plane's windows, the passengers could see a few fog-blurred car lights, knew they were nearly on the ground...