Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newport, R.I., leading in the trials to select a boat to represent the U.S. hi the Cup. So far, Turner, a sly Southern fox in the elegant and exclusive New York Yacht Club's domain of America's Cup racing, has outsailed his rivals, Sailmakers Ted Hood of Independence and Lowell North of Enterprise, in the competition leading up to the best-of-seven series for the world's oldest international sporting trophy...
...used sails and older design, Turner, 38, has transformed his four-year-old boat into a front runner, a conversion he hoped would prove contagious when he invited his Atlanta Braves baseball team to watch him race. Courageous had been sailed to the 1974 Cup victory by Hood, who this year planned to use it (with Turner as captain) for tune-up duty as Independence's sparring partner. But Hood reckoned without the cocky skipper's fierce competitiveness. "Everything...
...Yazoo Motel was taken over en bloc by the White House, with the mystically regarded communications equipment quartered there. In Stubb's restaurant next door. Sheriff Homer Hood showed up in a suit and tie for the first time in recent memory, and at lunches there was an amalgam of reporters, cameramen, White House people, Secret Service and old country boys from the seed stores, feed stores and sawmills, who seemed to wish to preserve an integrity of disinterest but shamed themselves with sneaky over-the-shoulder glances at the outlanders. People watched the national TV news every night...
Psychologist Morton Bard of the Graduate Center of New York's City University regarded the pillage as "a Robin Hood-type of thing-steal from the rich and give to the poor." But the explanation that leans on real and perceived deprivation goes only so far. It is by no means clear that most of the looters were the neediest. There was an element of glee, perhaps of revenge, of a mob gone wild. Says Bard: "The looting had a quality of madness. I cannot believe that they cleaned out a store of prayer shawls and Bibles." Adds Ernest...
...tells of being slowly but surely drawn first into sympathy with, and then active involvement in radical politics during the late '60s. He describes a famous scene outside Quincy House, when former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was surrounded by angry students and forced to speak briefly from the hood of a car before being led to safety by police. Although merely an interested spectator at that incident, Evans was a participant in the April 1969 occupation of University Hall, one of the last to enter the building, which he did at the urging of a friend. The experience...