Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sent up to Fort Hood, Texas, Gessner at first refused to tell interrogators just what he had been up to in Mexico City. Finally, according to former Army Counterintelligence Agent William V. Benson Jr., he broke down after a visit to the post chaplain, gave Benson a tape-recorded confession. "I gave them all," said Gessner of his dealings with the Russians. "I knew these weapons were going to be used on little children." At one point, Benson asked Gessner about a particular weapon. "This is not important. Julius and Ethel gave it to them in 1948," said Gessner. "Julius...
...doing a pretty good job of "selecting" herself. In the New York Yacht Club's annual spring regatta, she whipped both Columbia and Constellation, the other highly touted new twelve. Then, in head-to-head races, she beat them both again and took two straight from Ted Hood's Nefertiti. Finally, to top off her week, she really rubbed it in against Constellation-by the embarrassing margin...
...regained enough of her glitter under New Skipper Walter Podolak to beat Nefertiti and Constellation-the Californian's first victories in America's Cup competition. Constellation herself, with a record of two victories and five defeats, was still in the running. The only real disappointment was Ted Hood's Nefertiti. Glamour boat of the 1962 trials, the beamy Marblehead yacht got all the way to the finals before losing out to Weatherly, and many experts felt that Nefertiti was the better boat, credited Weatherly's victory mostly to the remarkable helmsmanship of Skipper Bus Mosbacher...
Many of the most popular songs simply crawl around under the hood admiring the engine without so much as a mention of speed and danger...
Veterans & Families. Then there is Nefertiti, which narrowly lost out to Weatherly last time and has undergone extensive face lifting. "Among other things, we've made the keel finer to offer less resistance," says Skipper Ted Hood, 37. "She ought to be as effective in heavy air as she was in '62 and a good deal better in light air." Columbia, the 1958 victor, will be on hand with the first West Coast crew ever to take a crack at Cup competition. Cornelius Shields has sold her to California Yachtsman Thomas Patrick Dougan, and her new skipper will...