Word: powerboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orange Bowl Regatta (CBS, 2-3:30 p.m.). Every sort of powerboat will compete in races on Miami's Biscayne Bay, some in the International Grand Prix for the Baker Palladium Trophy. Also water skiing...
...first time since 1920, the Harmsworth Cup, symbol of world supremacy in powerboat racing, left the U.S. as Canada's Miss Supertest Ill, owned by Jim (Supertest gasoline) Thompson of London, Ont, defeated Maverick, owned by Phoenix Millionaire (oil, cattle) Bill Waggoner. In winning the cup, Miss Supertest set a new course record of 104.098 m.p.h...
Both John and Barbara enjoy reading, good conversation, sometimes go dancing with friends at the Army-Navy Country Club. No longer a tennis player, non-Smoker John** plays golf (his father bests him consistently), keeps a 15-ft. powerboat in Chesapeake Bay. Recently, John bought a small converted schoolhouse as a weekend refuge on the southwest edge of the Gettysburg farm, is paying his father for it in small, long-range monthly payments...
...checks in York, Pa., Rose even helped make the checks good in the settlement that got Di Candia out of jail. Rose made no visible profit from his unusual generosity, while Di Candia, who arrived in Ellenville virtually penniless in 1949, owned two Cadillacs, a $40,000 home, a powerboat. Di Candia said that Rose did not even charge interest on the money he lent him; he thought it was Rose...
Close Calculation. Each of the 25 skippers in the 42nd annual predicted-log powerboat race up the length of Long Island Sound (see chart) had spent long hours computing his course; he had counted down to the last second just how long it would take him to pass each control point along the way. He had, if his calculations were correct, accounted for the effect of wind and tide; he had gone over his figures for the umpteenth time. Then he had filed his predictions with the race authorities...