Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago Ike had met a similar barrage with his now-famed "I need him." But last week an aide at the Summer White House in Newport said: "Nobody knows right now if Adams is leaving, because we can't look into the man's head. The President has done more worrying about this than almost any other matter lately. We don't believe that Adams did anything dishonest at all, but everybody thinks he was silly." Translation: pretty soon someone would look into Sherman Adams' head...
...final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular and windward-leeward courses ten miles off Newport...
...until this summer the finest 12-meter yacht in the world, Stephens had a good head start when he settled down last winter to create the 12-meter Columbia. The new boat posed special problems. In the summer, when the trials would be run, the breezes off Newport can be as soft as a whisper, but in September, cup race time, freshening winds often turn the waters into a white-capped obstacle course...
...racing hull as to a fashion model. Columbia's bow sweeps gracefully into a full-bodied hull-a shape that helps her go swiftly to windward against a running sea. Stephens' calculations show that Columbia should do her best in the heavy weather that often blows off Newport in late September...
...stayed politely apart by themselves. Their working day stretched from 7:30 in the morning until 5:30 at night. With such determination, the ten-man British crew at Newport last week groomed Sceptre to challenge the U.S.'s Columbia for the 107-year-old America...