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...against the Aussies in 1980, winning four out of five races. He is not an endearing man: he is anxious, abrasive and overweight, hard and unforgiving on the water. Co-author of a book called No Excuse to Lose, he has spent 6,000 hours at the helm of 12-meter boats over the past five years, and he was determined to win again. "There's more to it than boat speed," he said in a remark worthy of Leo Durocher. "You have to be first at the finish line...
...President Reagan's friends are still unemployed, he should appoint them to a committee to study this problem. Perhaps seeing him, Kennedy-esque, at the helm instead of on horseback on his next vacation would be the patriotic boost this country needs. Instead of spending billions of dollars on redundant missile systems, the White House could reroute some of that money to fund junior high school sailing programs. The President should make a firm committment that the U.S. will reclaim the Cup and never lose it again...
...fate of the deal is now in the hands of Fred M. Kirby II, the reclusive, aristocratic chairman of Alleghany, who inherited the helm from his late father in 1967. Though the company's headquarters are in New York City, Kirby operates out of his father's wood-paneled gold-carpeted office in a 175-year-old white clapboard house in Morristown, N J The family owns 43% of Alleghany stock, and Kirby once called IDS the "crown jewel of [our] business affairs. He may resist parting with that jewel at anything less than a royal price...
Having replaced her late mother at the helm of Monaco's Girl Scouts, Princess Caroline, 26, welcomed a respite from the grown-up pressures that accompany most official duties. She and 56 other Girl Scouts set up camp at the Château de Marchais, the sprawling Grimaldi estate a few miles north of Paris. For the outing, the princess donned appropriate shirt and kerchief and joined in such camp activities as peeling vegetables, doing the dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like...
...helm of the Faculty is Henry Rosovsky, often considered the second most powerful man at Harvard because he oversees a part of the University about equal to the sum of all the other parts. As the Harvard Mart's general manager. Rosovsky does all the hiring and firing of Faculty and support staff, and also decides what kind of academic products will be available to the College's 6500 undergraduates. Also under his purview are about 2000 students seeking advanced liberal arts degrees through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...