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...himself in the first close America's Cup race in years. Since 1958, when the smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer Olin Stephens, creator of Courageous. The low-slung challenger, which trounced rivals from France and Sweden to get a crack at Courageous, may well nearly match her in hull speed, and has a highly competent skipper in the respected Noel Robins...
...remains," he says, "is some fine adjustments-sell a bit here, buy a bit there." Wall manages to soften the hectic 16-hour-a-day pace of his business life by relaxing with his family, which he calls "my breathing space." Every weekend he, his wife Ann, his son Johan, 11, and his daughter Osa, 7, escape to the family's 600-acre farm at Starfors. Ironically, the farm is one of Wall's few money-losing enterprises. But, says the executive, "it's a lot of fun, and it helps me hold on to my roots...
...classic study of man at play, Homo Ludens, Historian Johan Huizinga described it as "a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary life,' " animated by "the impulse to create orderly form." Once the idea of order goes, so goes the game itself- and its fans. A report commissioned by the Ontario provincial government on hockey violence in Canada concluded: "When the evidence strongly indicates that there is a conscious effort to sell the violence in hockey to enrich a small group of show business entrepreneurs at the expense of a great sport (not to mention the corruption...
...tactic worked. First to surrender were the train hijackers (TIME, Dec. 22); they were quickly charged with murder. The South Moluccans inside the consulate, who had heard of the news of their companions' surrender on the TV and radio, gave in after their government's "President," Johan Manusama, assured them that the Dutch were willing at least to talk about the rebels' political situation in The Netherlands...
...independent state in the islands that they-or, more typically, their parents-were forced to flee after the Dutch left and the Indonesians took over in 1950. Most of the islanders living in The Netherlands recognize that the goal of an independent South Molucca is scarcely realistic. Johan Manusama, 65, president of the self-styled South Moluccan government-in-exile, regularly appears on television to urge Dutchmen not to punish other South Moluccans for the sins of the young "freedom fighters" holding the hostages...