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...race day, a stiff 22-knot wind built up 6-ft. to 10-ft. waves. But out they went, 63 of the fastest, most expensive outboards, inboards, diesels and stern drives ever assembled on one patch of water. Bill Petty's Pussy Cat, a 23-ft., 550-h.p. Sportsman worth $20,000, was barely clear of the harbor when it caught fire and burned to the water line. Minutes later, Bill Lewis' 40-ft. Formula came apart and sank. Only 32 boats reached the initial checkpoint at Bimini; of these, twelve never reached Nassau...
Tony Parker, Jim Harper, and John Clement will be among the 12 to race in the NEISA Singlehanded Championship May 21. Their boats reached incredible speeds in the 35-knot wind Sunday and often came close to capsizing. John Bullard and Win Fowler also raced, but failed to qualify...
Harry Parker's varsity shell finally had a chance to show what it could do in perfect rowing conditions as a chilling 20-knot tailwind dropped to nothing for the last two races of the afternoon...
...People's Revolution." The Papandreous refused to back Kanellopoulos, claiming that the National Radical Union had rigged elections in the past and would do so again. Army leaders, on the other hand, were dismayed at the incredible knot tied by the politicians and were ever more fearful that Papandreou would once again reap gains at the polls. Moreover, they knew that Andreas Papandreou had been saying privately: "I am convinced that Greece must have a revolution...
Tony Parker skippered the Crimson into a deadlock with the Indians for first place in the third race Sunday morning. The mettle of Harvard's crew came forth as it worked through the fleet in a 20-knot wind...