Word: meters
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...Newport, R.I., last week, Dame Pattie might have been competition for Bus Mosbacher and the U.S. defender, Intrepid. As it was, the winds ranged from seven to 22 knots, and Pattie lost three straight races by wide margins. On not one single point of sailing did the Australian 12-meter yacht prove superior...
...that it has. At Newport last week, there were no fewer than three potential challengers waiting at the dock: another Aussie syndicate, a British group, and a French outfit led by Baron Marcel Bich, a millionaire ballpoint-pen manufacturer. Bich already owns one 12-meter yacht, has shares in two others, including Intrepid's trial horse, Constellation, has a fourth on the drawing boards, and is reportedly dickering to buy Intrepid herself. If the baron was discouraged by the odds, he certainly did not show it. "We are ready to issue a challenge for 1970," he said, "as soon...
...people to considerable trouble, grief and expense. I refer to your mention of the trim-tab on Intrepid's keel. I am the holder of U.S. and Canadian patents which cover this particular feature of a keel flap and a separate rudder. For the purposes of the 12-meter boats involved in this year's series, no restrictions were placed upon use of the feature. Nevertheless, it is not in the public domain, and its future application remains subject to patent...
...upset, there was the 200-meter freestyle victory of Florida's Pam Kruse, 17, who clocked a world-record 2 min. 9.7 sec.-while the old recordholder, California's Pokey Watson, straggled in fifth. For beauty, there was Florida's lissome, blonde Catie Ball, 15, who set world marks in both the 100meter and 200-meter breaststroke. And for versatility, there was California's tousle-haired Claudia Kolb, 17, who 1) won the 400-meter individual medley in world-record time, 2) set a second record in the 200-meter medley, 3) swam the breaststroke...
...tall, 111 Ibs., just turned 15-and already the possessor of three world records. Daughter of a Sacramento, Calif., plant manager, Debbie has been splashing around pools ever since she was six months old, and her current training regimen calls for at least 12,000 meters of swimming a day, six days a week. All she had to shoot at last week were her own monthold world records in the 400-meter free style (4 min. 32.6 sec.) and the 1,500-meter freestyle (18 min. 11.1 sec.). She shot 'em dead. First, she lopped...