Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meter sloop "Weatherly" yesterday clinched the America's Cup by beating the Australian challenger "Gretel" by 600 yards in a windwardleeward 24-mile yacht race off Newport, Rhode Island...
...America's Cup Race (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The race series begins Sept. 15. This program develops its background, shows films of the elimination races held in August and excerpts from the two races already run by this date between the American twelve-meter yacht Weatherly and the Australian sloop Gretel...
...defender, she lay in the ways at Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread of a dozen shipfitters who had come aboard for final, perhaps desperate, changes...
...Peter Daland told her to go home and wait until she was twelve. Next year she made the team. Daland worked long hours to strengthen her arm and shoulder muscles, get more power into her kick. In 1960, when she was just 14, Carolyn broke the American 1,500-meter record, placed second to Defending Champion Chris von Saltza in the 400-meter freestyle, and earned a trip to the Rome Olympics...
Sharing the Glory. In peak form for last week's A.A.U. championships, Carolyn had to share her glory with another Los Angeles teenager: her best friend, 16-year-old Sharon Finneran, who broke the listed world records in the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 31.2 sec.) and the 400-meter individual medley (5 min. 25.4 sec.). A swimming nomad, Sharon was born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., started swimming competitively in Florida, moved with her schoolteacher mother to Los Angeles last year to work with Carolyn and Coach Daland. The girls live only six blocks apart, and both attend John...