Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that if discussion with representatives of the City proved fruitless, the HCUA might ask all students to bring their bicycles to the Square on the same day as a mass protest. The students could take up all available parking spaces, paying in meter fee but refusing to move the bikes...
Pride, the U.S. champion 5.5-meter yacht, skippered by New York's Pete Masterson: the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup, from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's challenger Bibis II, in three straight races on Long Island Sound. Obviously the faster boat in heavy seas and high winds, Pride's winning margins were conclusive: 4 min. 14 sec., 5 min., and 1 min. Often called the "Little America's Cup," the Seawanhaka Cup competition is similar to the America's Cup in all but one respect: the U.S. has no monopoly on it. Pride...
...Gretel finally sailed across the line, her crew hoisted a wry salute to Mosbacher and Weatherly. Up ran their checkered flag, meaning "I am not prepared to race tomorrow." The Aussies had already done, a good bit of sailing. In their first attempt at building a 12-meter yacht, they designed a boat that in some ways was faster than the U.S.'s best. With out much experience, either in the class or in U.S. waters, Sturrock sailed her well enough to win one race, lose another by the barest of 26-sec. margins. As Sturrock said: "The best...
...roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late. Gretel was home free, 47 sec. ahead in 2 hr. 46 min. 58 sec., the fastest 24-mile Cup race ever sailed by a 12-meter yacht...
Gretel then took advantage of an old Australian custom and, catching the following seas on her broad stern, surf-boarded home to a :47 victory and the fastest 24 mile race ever sailed by the swift Twelve meter sloops...