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...Newport, R.I., capturing the America's Cup and ending 132 years of U.S. sailing supremacy. Americans were astonished when John Bertrand, an unknown naval engineer, steered his boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel his secret weapon, and only now confesses that the keel was a fake, intended only...
DELRAY BEACH, Fia-Ivan Lendit of Czechoslovakian shook off a sluggish start and Martina Navratilova began at a torrid pace as the two number one seeds powered their way yesterday into the third round of the $1.8 million Lipton International Players Championships tennis tournament...
...Lipton Tennis...
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Marko Ostoja of Yugoslavia shocked third seeded Henrik Sundstrom of Sweden and topseeded Ivan Lendl trounced Larry Stefanki in a match that ended without an umpire or linesmen last night in the inaugural $1.8 million Lipton. International Players Championships tennis tournament...
...article in the June 1984 Review, a Harvard law student defended the "poison pill" practice. Ironically, the student, whom the Review refuses to name, worked as a summer associate at Wachtell, Lipton, which is defending the practice in court...