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...first race in the US Olympic trials ... some 360 small-boat skippers and crews in 180 boats in six classes will have devoted an estimated 100,000 man-hours and $1,000,000 into efforts to make the 12-man team at the Kingston Olympics. Many of these sailors quit jobs or school as early as January, and most if not all will start this month preparing their boats and themselves on at least a half-time basis. If these sailors were less individualistic, they could combine their resources, talents and energies to produce one 12-Meter, a dozen...
...departure, however. The real battle takes place June 12 on Lake Ontario at the U.S. Sailing Center, when some 36 Tempests race for the right to be the one boat to represent the United States in the Tempest class, one of six separate classes at the 1976 Olympics at Kingston, Ontario. Berg and Schoettle, Derek Bok's brother-in-law, want to be in that boat...
...will neither lack the weight (his crew Con Finley, an Olympic gold medal rower, is 6 ft., 7 in., 225 lbs.) nor sailing time, even though he has only been sailing in the class for a year. Since he bought two Tempests after the 1975 pre-Olympics at Kingston, Conner has spent some 200 days in his boat...
...every one of you who screamed your head off when Ed Sullivan introduced you to those precocious Liverpudlians back in '63 had better be there if you know what's good for you. Bob Marley is just the same as Paul McCartney, only he's from Funky Kingston, which is just South of Liverpool, and he's been high all of his life, on ganja, that is, which is this substance which people from South of Liverpool worship by smoking it a lot. Reggae, which is the stuff BobMarley and his Wailers play, is the same as what the Beatles...
...course, solved Jamaica's problems by scrutinizing them, but it has grabbed the attention of the island's politicians, who now realize that the easiest way to reach the electorate is through music. In most of Jamaica's record stores, next to the Maytals' Funky Kingston and the Wailers' Natty Dread is a $5.50 album called Michael Manley Speaks to the Nation...