Word: jock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have tried 16 times, the Canadians twice, the Australians once-all have failed. Hope still springs, as long as somebody springs for the price (upwards of $300,000) of a sleek 12-meter yacht. Next September Australia will go again. After trial races in Sydney last week, Top Skipper Jock Sturrock, 51, was eager to boast that "we've got a boat that can win the America...
...design. Built at a cost of $500,000, the Dame has a radical rudder (broad at the top, tapering sharply at the foot) and a 92-ft. aluminum mast that is built in sections for extra flexibility-to keep the mainsail flatter while beating to windward. She also has Jock Sturrock at the helm. In unofficial competition with Gretel, Dame Pattie has been spectacular. Last week Skipper Sturrock spotted Gretel a full minute, was ahead by 6 min. 45 sec. after 15 miles...
Hardin looks very much like Walt Hewlett -- the Crimson harrier sensation whose records Hardin is now shattering. Looking at him, you'd never guess he was a jock. He is slight, bespectacled, and looks a little undernourished. His clothes hang on him. He can't quite fill them...
Hardin has a tough time adjusting to life as a famous jock. "It just occurred to me that in an ordinary year I'd be sent to the Nationals (He can't this year because Harvard and the NCAA aren't on the best of terms.) I just ran and was satisfied. Hey, I got a course record. Hey, I'm good. Look at that. I mean it just occurred...
Conniff himself will edit the editorial page. "We will have editorial writers from all three papers, and if anything goes sour, I'm to blame." Under an unusual arrangement, any of the three publishers-Bill Hearst, Jack Howard, Jock Whitney-will be given space to reply if they disagree with an editorial. "It should make for a pretty lively page," says Conniff. Leslie Gould from the Journal-American will boss the financial page; Maurice Dolbier from the Trib and John Barkham from the Saturday Review will review books; the Trib's Walter Terry, dance; John Gruen and Emily...