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...merely the birth pangs of a new and greater era. "Every new war," he wrote in 1945 in The Planetisation of Mankind, "embarked upon by the nations for the purpose of detaching themselves from one another, merely results in their being bound and mingled together in a more inextricable knot. The more we seek to thrust each other away, the more do we interpenetrate...
...near the base of the back of the President's neck slightly to the right of the spine, traveled slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed at which it hit; it nicked a corner of the knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right rear of his skull, "causing a massive and fatal wound" approximately five inches wide on the right side of his head. So extensive was the damage that the Parkland doctors were unsure...
...first test of the best of-seven series, Constellation had trounced Sovereign by 5 min. 34 sec., leading every foot of the way around the 24.3-mile triangular course. It could hardly get any worse-but it did. In the second race, with crashing seas and a stiff, 20-knot breeze, Connie went out and humiliated Sovereign, winning by the widest margin in modern America's Cup history...
...after day in the final America's Cup trials, only the lightest of breezes rippled Rhode Island Sound, and day after day Constellation gently wafted to victory on the 7-and 8-knot whispers. "Ah, but wait for the heavy weather," smiled American Eagle fans...
Bavier's special excellence is getting the last fraction of a knot out of his sails and hull. Not a man for complex tactics, he left most of the maneuvering to Cox, instead concentrated on speed. With that strategy, he lost only once in seven races-and then in fluky breezes that wandered all round the compass. Five of the six wins were not even close. That still left Eagle with the better overall record for the trials (19-10 v. Connie's 18-11), but there could be no question as to which was now the faster...