Word: koch
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...members range from Ivy League Olympians to a deaf bodybuilder featured on the TV show American Gladiators -- will be competing for a spot in the world's most famous sailboat race. In a grueling round robin over the next three months, the women, recruited by 1992 Cup winner William Koch, will race veteran Dennis Conner and another all-male crew, PACT '95, for the single U.S. spot. Seven foreign syndicates, including a formidable Australian team, will compete separately against each other. In May, U.S. defender and foreign challenger face off for the best of nine races...
...helm, the margin of victory may depend more on technology than seamanship. If the Australians won in 1983 -- the first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer...
Luckily for the women, Koch, reincarnated as the Daddy Warbucks of diversity, wants to provide them with the swiftest boat money can buy. The iconoclastic Kansan, heir to an oil fortune, spent $68 million to win the 1992 cup -- and he is passing on many of his assets, including his two best yachts as training vessels, a huge inventory of masts, sails, rigging and tools, and reams of computer, design and meteorological data. Koch also contributed $5 million in seed money -- a quarter of the women's budget -- to hire some 90 top-level coaches, engineers, fund raisers and public...
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...generation," former Advocate Poetry Editor and (coincidentally, of course) frequent contributor Niko Canner tells us, we have seen, "perhaps the highest level of student work in poetry since the late 40s and early 50s when the Advocate board boasted John Ashberry, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara...