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Herold, a two-year starter in the nets and the eystone of this year's team, has been grinding it away at the Newport, R.I. training camp along with 20 other players since the first week of September. Unlike previous seasons, when conditioning drills were stressed at camp, this year the booters are playing themselves into shape and working more in scrimmages...
Since he knew he was not the yachting Establishment's choice, the triumph on its merits was particularly sweet. And Terrible Ted Turner, the bold, brash captain of the revamped 12-meter yacht Courageous, had the champagne ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain...
...lady needed the money, and the offer of $825,000 wasn't bad. But Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Onassis' mother, was especially impressed with the plans of Edward Sughrue, an attorney from Whitinsville, Mass., and eight business partners to turn the family estate in Newport, R.I., into a Kennedy museum. After all, the greatest days at Hammersmith Farm were when the Honey Fitz tied up at the dock or the presidential helicopter settled on the lawns. An Irishman who cast his first vote ever for J.F.K., Sughrue plans to open the house to tourists next spring and charge admission...
...America's Cup-had consigned the captain and his Courageous to third place. But last week, after two months and two rounds of preliminary races-with a final one beginning Aug. 16 still to go -Turner's tenacity and cunning helmsmanship brought Courageous home to Newport, R.I., leading in the trials to select a boat to represent the U.S. hi the Cup. So far, Turner, a sly Southern fox in the elegant and exclusive New York Yacht Club's domain of America's Cup racing, has outsailed his rivals, Sailmakers Ted Hood of Independence and Lowell...
...over the years, Turner emerged as one of the most widely experienced and successful sailors in the world, winning in a variety of boats under every condition. As a skipper, he is a fire storm of energy, ranting, cursing, praising, excoriating. On the waters of Rhode Island Sound off Newport, he has driven his crew to a razor-sharp edge. Conservative in his tactics when in the lead, he will stop at nothing when he is behind. The final race last week against Enterprise was typical. Trailing at the final buoy, Turner drove his crew through 19 tacks...