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...following a Sunday lay day, the fog finally exited and the wind picked up a little. It was still not the steady 20-30 knot breeze the Cross was used to off the coast of Australia, but the 12-14 knots had to do. No one had really given up on the gold-hulled challenger, and hopes were high that she would finally put it all together...
...ponders it all in his cramped office. Sometimes the outside world intrudes and it shocks him. He went to his daughter's fifth-grade class to talk, and the first question was "Should the President be impeached?" The 150 kids broke into cheers. The reaction made his stomach knot up. Out in Iowa a while back, a 70-year-old lady looked him in the eye and said, "I'm glad I don't have long to live because there really isn't much to live for." That stunned...
...first two days of the 20-race, three-day regatta were sailed in three to five knot winds, which gave a large advantage to sailors with local knowledge. Both of Princeton's two skippers hail from the Newport Beach area and, indeed, the regatta headquarters was established on the lawn of one of the Princeton women's home...
...front-seat passengers until they had fastened their seat belts. But that system was too easy to circumvent. All a driver had to do was buckle up the seat belt and sit on it or simply leave the belt unfastened and prevent it from retracting by tying a knot in it. So beginning in January 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation required that all new cars be equipped with a Machiavellian system that made it nearly impossible to start a car unless the driver 1) sat down in the seat, 2) fastened the seat belt, and 3) turned the ignition...
...Haley, assisted by linemate Dave Gauthier, slipped the puck into the left corner of the B.U. net at 3:37 of the opening stanza to give Harvard an early 1-0 lead. Terrier Jim Glover deflected in a Chris Bannerman shot from the right point at 10:52 to knot the score...