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...Newport is divine," cooed Elizabeth Taylor as she and Hubby John Warner joined the glamorous golden hordes thronging the scene of the America's Cup races. Ted Turner's Courageous looked like a winner as she hoisted her sails and breezed off to compete against the Australians. When ashore, Captain Ted kept a low profile, apart from throwing an impromptu party on Bannister's Wharf to read a special letter. "I am proud of you all and all Americans, Yankees and Southerners," wrote Jimmy Carter. "That was nice of him," conceded Turner...
...George's in Newport, R.I., the prospective varsity soccer players worked three-a-day sessions for a week prior to Harvard's opening. There were hours of conditioning, more hours of playing soccer, and the continuous push to keep running. And through it all, there were the coaches, watching, and deciding who could continue and who had to go. "Being one of the less strong, and knowing there were always three coaches watching,...it got to me," Malkin said, adding, "You're always conscious of how you're doing but it's tough to evaluate your own performance in terms...
...America's Cup races for our SPORT story written by Associate Editor Frederic Golden, had only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first lay day of the races. I still...
...Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia is squaring off with the 1974 U.S. defender, Courageous, skippered by Turner- the Peck's Bad of Boy of yachting-in the waters off Newport...
...outdoor advertising company, two TV stations, the hapless Atlanta Braves), has no intention of losing the trophy. "We came to win," he exhorted his ten-man crew last week, "and that's what we're doing, right?" Among the eagle-eyed yachting fraternity that swarmed into historic Newport for the best-of-seven series, there was nearly unanimous agreement. Despite obvious progress since their last challenge three years ago with Southern Cross, Australian Real Estate Developer Alan Bond and his team have apparently not yet caught up with the Americans in the complex art of designing, outfitting...