Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newport, some terrible trials for Terrible...
...trials. Ted Turner has cause to be subdued. With the third and final round of the trials set to begin next week, Courageous has won only six races and lost 19, leaving her a distant second to Freedom (31-2) and only marginally better than Clipper (7-24). In Newport, R.I., site of the 129-year-old competition, a cruel whisper is making the rounds: "Ted is dead...
...arrived with a slightly modified hull (later changed even further) and the same crew that captured sailing's most coveted prize in 1977. He was the early favorite to defend the Cup in September against either Britain, France, Sweden or Australia; the foreign trials began last week off Newport. But from the outset Courageous has been buffeted by ill winds. In one race, the hydraulic device that controls the boom failed. Then the boom itself cracked, and a day later the yacht lost her mast when an inexpensive piece of equipment let go high in the rigging. To make...
...introduced I Can 't Give You Anything but Love in Blackbirds of 19281 Never mind. Black Broadway brings them both back anew for a three-week run at Man hattan's Town Hall. The revue, an out growth of a concert at last year's Newport Jazz Festival, is an amiable, loosely strung hit parade of black musical entertainment from the first half of the century...
Maxine Lundberg Newport Beach, Calif...