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Most important alibi of all was the weather: Sceptre had lost to Evaine in light airs and in sheltered waters. She was designed to be at her best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...
Beating to windward in a black night of rain squalls rolling up from the southeast, the vanguard of the 21st biennial Newport-to-Bermuda yacht race boiled past the finish line off St. David's Head in a swirl of windy confusion. Busy skippers forgot to flash their sail numbers in code to the race committee, and their boats slid by in the gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session...
White Water. The start off Newport came in a spanking northwester, and a too-daring majority of crews broke out their spinnakers. The billowing kites caught more wind than they could handle. The U.S. Naval Academy's 44-ft. yawl Fearless was knocked down and her decks rolled under white water until she finally worked free. The 45-ft. sloop Sirius lost her spinnaker over the side and caught the waterlogged tangle with her keel. Two days later the Finisterre had spinnaker trouble too. Despite an elaborate net of lines designed to keep it from fouling, the soaring, cranky...
...fall's major battle in the war of public-school desegregation. The court refused to review an order from a U.S. District Court judge compelling the Arlington County school board to admit to white schools the Negro students who have applied in a test case; Charlottesville, Norfolk and Newport News face similar orders. The result is to pit the power of the federal courts against the elaborate machinery of "massive resistance" enacted in 1956 and 1957 by the Virginia legislature under the spur of the state's political patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass-façaded Palm Springs specialty shop by Los Angeles Architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman. In addition, Pereira & Luckman lengthened their list of honors with an Award of Merit for Beckman Instruments' Helipot Division plant at Newport Beach, Calif., and Ed Stone picked up a similar award for his U.S. Pavilion in Brussels. Winner of the A.I.A. Gold Medal, reserved as an accolade for a lifetime's accomplishment: a leading Chicago architect and modern pioneer, John Wellborn Root, 70, whose glass-façaded A. O. Smith Engineering...