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...hours off the course record for the Buenos Aires-Rio run, covering 1,200 miles in less than 190 hours. Two weeks ago, in the 635-mile Newport-Bermuda race, Ondine was becalmed for twelve hours, but still led the 151-boat fleet across the finish. Her time-83 hrs. 12 min.-was a full hour faster than the second boat. Strictly for Power. Unlike most ocean-racing yachts, which are designed to compete on corrected rather than actual time (under a labyrinthine handicapping formula), Ondine is built strictly for brute power. "The only things we're trying...
...love defeat crossed my mind," he said later. "I was very pleased finally to win a game. After that it was different." It sure was. Cox forced the panting Pancho into the first five-set match he had played in five years and wore him down in 2¼ hrs. 0-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Cox disposed of Emerson in 75 min., blasting the Aussie off the court in straight sets...
...Bundy-Hoffmann debate will be broadcast in its entirety (2 hrs., 15 minutes) at 8:30 tonight on WGBH, Channel...
...boss, CINCPAC Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp, was on the opposite side of the Pacific, conferring in Danang with General William Westmoreland. Unaccountably, Sharp was not informed of Pueblo's plight until he had flown from Danang and landed on the carrier Kittyhawk-a lapse of 3 hrs...
...extricate Pueblo is riddled with ironies and grievous shortcomings. For so risky an action as a strafing run on North Korean vessels, the President's approval would have been needed. But Johnson was asleep, unaware of the situation until his advisers finally tipped him off a full 2 hrs. and 15 min. after Pueblo had been boarded. Even if the chain of communication had been less sluggish and reached Johnson in time for him to approve an air strike, his O.K. would have meant nothing. The world's foremost airpower did not have the retaliatory capacity ready...