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...sailboat races go, it was an unmitigated disaster. By the time the two 12-meters rounded the second of six marks in the waters off Newport, Australia's Gretel II was already 5 min. 28 sec. ahead of France, skippered by Baron Marcel Bich. At the fourth mark, the margin was 24 min. 15 sec.-and then the baron had gotten lost in the fog. The race was finally called 43 minutes after Gretel II crossed the finish line. That made it four out of four for the Aussies, who now have the honor of mounting the 21st challenge...
...Yorker Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr., 46, champion U.S. yachtsman, will be chief of protocol. A wealthy investor in real estate and oil, Dartmouth-educated Mosbacher has twice skippered a successful America's Cup defender: Weatherly against Australia's Gretel in 1962 and Intrepid against the 1967 Australian challenger, Dame Pattie. The Potomac is no place for a blue-water sail or but, said Mosbacher, "Maybe I can sail a dinghy down there...
...robber soon fall in love; but McQueen trusts no one, and to put Faye to the test he bitterly stages another heist. She counters with an ambush that leads to a surprise ending slightly less suspenseful than the one in the Hansel and Gretel affair...
...Hansel & Gretel. Though many weathermen are content to inform a viewer whose wet socks are drying on the radiator that it rained today, a few have won their audiences through ingenuity. In New York City, Tex Antoine, head seer at WABC, puts the "sugar coating on a rather dull subject" by using Uncle Wethbee, a cartoon drawing whose mustache droops or curls according to the climate. "Half the fun," says Antoine, affixing a black eye on Uncle Wethbee, "is explaining the reason why a forecast fails"; the other half is collecting $100,000 a year for not failing too often...
WNBC's Dr. Frank Field, the Manhattan fellow whom Johnny Carson accuses of using a Hansel and Gretel clock to make his predictions, is actually a doctor of optometry. And appropriately so, for where others see a high-pressure area, Field sees "cold air coming off the Great Lakes like a locomotive without brakes...