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...Stephens figures that he saved more than 60 Ibs. on the shorter bow alone. What's more, says Stephens, without the usual heavy fore and aft overhang, the short-ended Intrepid will be less prone to lose speed by hobbyhorsing in rough seas around the Cup course off Newport, R.I. To keep the boat's center of gravity low and thus increase her stability in a breeze, Stephens prescribed lightweight titanium for the top third of Intrepid's 90-ft. mast, even went so far as to set the heavy sheet winches below decks rather than topside...
...Dame Pattie, and that boat, as Mosbacher says, "has been beating Gretel to death" in trial races Down Under. Though Gretel's owner, Sir Frank Packer, has altered his boat for the third time, and won himself another series of trials, Sturrock & Co. will almost certainly be at Newport in September...
What strikes you first is the lack of activity. The Summer News, a twice-weekly newspaper which the university pays the CRIMSON to publish, is filled with reviews, speech stories, features on the Newport Folk Festival, articles about Congressional hearings the draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves lemonade on the lawn every Wednesday afternoon and maintains a "social and information" center...
...eight in his father's New Orleans marching band, wailed his way to fame as a sideman and soloist with King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and '30s, later formed his own group, became a fixture at Manhattan's Metropole Cafe and Newport Jazz Festivals; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...officers for the coming year. They are Jeffrey P. Howard '69 of Winthrop House and Chicago, president; Elvin Montgomery Jr. '68 of Lowell House and New Orieans, La., vice-president; Robert L. Hall '69 of Leverett House and Tallahasse, Fla., secretary; Robert Scott'69 of Lowell House and Newport News, Va., Michael E. Watson '70 of Greenough Hall and St. Louis, communications officer; and George D. Houser '70 of Weld Hall and Rome, Ga., operations officer...