Word: leewards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heat held at M.I.T., Crimson ace Time Prince won eight out of ten races. In one race he lost his main sheet and dropped to second place as he sailed the windward leg re-threading the sheet. He regained his lead on the leeward leg, however, and finished first despite the mishap...
...Then Bavier set a new jib on Constellation and launched an exhausting short-tacking drive; 17 times in 15 minutes he put about, gaining a precious second or two on each tack. At last, on the 17th try, Bavier cleared Constellation from Eagle's cover, drove through to leeward and carried into clear...
...better not go away to a prep school, because he should spend every winter weekend in frostbite racing, which may give him as many as eight starts a day-eight chances to show his will to win at the starting line, at the windward mark, and again at the leeward mark. Then, perhaps, the fledgling sailor may be considered qualified to crew for the likes of Corny Shields, in International One-Designs, or America's Cup 12-meters, or in ocean-going yachts in the biennial Bermuda races...
...want shopping, gambling, nightclubbing, and those who only want to be within earshot of a whispering palm. From the shivering north of Manhattan two teams went reconnoitering in the sun-one to the northern islands, from the Bahamas to the Virgins, the other down the stepping stones of the Leeward and Windward Islands to Trinidad. Correspondents Ed Reingold and Kenneth Froslid and Photographer J. Alex Langley did the first, and Rosemary Frank and Carl Mydans the second. They came back talking of their struggles in renting Jeeps, planes, sailboats and motorboats to make their rounds, and insisting on what...
...LEEWARDS & WINDWARDS. South of the Virgins, where the mounting air fare begins to screen out the junior executives, are the Leeward and Windward Islands. Some of these the chic international jet-setters are currently making "In" by their presence-until the inevitable turning point when the un-chic join them in sufficient numbers to drive them somewhere else, and the word again goes round that "Nobody goes there any more, my dear." One island so In that almost no body knows about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with...