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...first race, the Aussies came out for the second match in the kind of day to gladden any Sydney sailor's heart. The balmy 15-knot breeze had be come a tearing, 25-knot northwest wind; heavy swells rolled across the green Atlantic, and off to the horizon spray-laden whitecaps filled the scene. It was Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Sydney...
...herself waited to present the "100 Guineas Cup" to the winner. Finally, a hail from the bridge: "Sail ho!" "Which boat is it?" demanded the Queen. "The America, Madam." Said Victoria: "Oh, indeed! And which is second?" There was a pause, while the signalman's glass swept the horizon. "I regret to report," came the halting reply, "that there is no second." "Yankee trickery," charged the British yachtsmen, hinting darkly that black-hulled America was powered by some sort of "infernal machine." In the bitterness of that moment, one of sport's great and enduring contests was born...
Arthur is one of the more than 50 heavily Negro schools in Philadelphia that are striving mightily to emulate New York City's pioneering "Higher Horizons" program. The premise is that a child who can look, figuratively, over the horizons of a slum will get out of it. Speeth has lifted the horizon to the loftiest levels of literary and artistic achievement-and has made an exemplary success...
...then, with your feet together and your eyes on the horizon, you hit the ground. Upon impact, you collapse and roll...
...around the globe bouncing back and forth under the ionized layers of the upper atmosphere. They must travel on microwaves, which follow paths as straight as beams of light; getting them past the curve of the earth requires a relay station high enough so that it shows above the horizon from both shores. Telstar served this purpose for a historic few minutes last week while it was sweeping across the Atlantic to Europe...