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Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
...contending that Powell is not the only Congressman deserving of censure-and indeed nobody expected a stampede by Congress to adopt a long-needed, enforceable code of conduct for all. In New York City, save-Powell propaganda was mailed out under cover of stationery bearing the mark, and postal meter cancellation, of Harlem's Powell-ruled HarYou-Act agency, which is financed in part by federal funds. Civil rights Patriarch A. Philip Randolph announced a "summit conference" of Negro leaders to plot a campaign to win back Powell's seat. It could well prove a lost cause...
Hayes, silver medalist in the 200 meter butterfly at the 1960 Rome Olympics, said Wednesday that he had dressed only to prevent any changes in the Indian lineup...
...firm of prima donnas!" When he tells a visitor that Jason Epstein is "the cross I have to bear," Epstein retorts, "and Bennett is the bear I have to cross." Corporation Secretary Charles A. Wimpfheimer, 38, gets in on the fun now and then. He once installed a parking meter in Cerf's private washroom, probably because Cerf himself started the local bathroom jokes by placing two copies of Lindbergh's autobiography side by side over the toilet, thus...
William M. McLaughlin, Cambridge Parking Meter Coordinator, said yesterday that "close to $2000 in damage has occurred in the Linden and Plympton St. areas in the past four years...