Word: pickering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting on Friday, the Chicanos presented a 20-minute taped interview with a grape picker on the problems of unionizing in California. Saragoza said yesterday that the interview plus commentary on it by Chicano students from Harvard would form the basis for the first show, to be aired next Sunday...
Indeed, in the first four races Gretel II had shown herself easily as swift a sloop-and perhaps even faster in light airs. What Aussie Skipper Jim Hardy could not prove was his crew's superiority over Intrepid's Bill Picker and his polished young sailors. Time after time, Gretel II grasped for the advantage, only to be frustrated by the seamen aboard Intrepid. The fifth race was more of the same. Gretel II jumped off to an early lead, footing smartly in the soft, fluky winds. In a series of aggressive tacks, Picker overhauled the Aussies...
Afterward, while the spectator fleet blared horns and shot flares into the darkening sky, the Intrepid crew gleefully doused Picker's bald head with champagne. Tradition also dictated that they heave him in the drink-which they did with dispatch, thus producing the memorable sight of the two skippers treading water and shaking hands. Yet the end of the 21st cup defense was only a beginning. What used to be a private competition between the U.S. and its English-speaking cousins (Canada, Britain, Australia) is becoming an event of Olympian proportions. As of last week, a tentative line...
...when Gretel II crossed the starting line 30 sec. before the gun; she had to turn back to cross again, allowing Intrepid to breeze off to a 100-yd. lead. The second goof came on the fifth leg when Gretel II, closing hard on the defender, failed to follow Picker's starboard jibe and went in search of a better breeze on a port jibe. She did not find it. The fourth race saw Intrepid leading at all five marks, but with a scant mile and a half to go, the wind shifted and died down...
...Picker, 42, a prosperous architect from Newport Beach, Calif., Intrepid's showing was fitting answer to those skeptics who felt that he was not up to handling a tricky 12-meter. Though he was co-helmsman of Columbia in the 1967 cup trials, most of his experience is in ocean racers and smaller one-design boats. Nevertheless, Picker, the Star Class world champion in 1958, has proved his contention that the tactics he learned in small boats would serve him well in the America's Cup. A tall, totally bald man, he resembles the thin...