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...after day in the final America's Cup trials, only the lightest of breezes rippled Rhode Island Sound, and day after day Constellation gently wafted to victory on the 7-and 8-knot whispers. "Ah, but wait for the heavy weather," smiled American Eagle fans...
...fourth lap around the driveway, the President turned the panting beagles over to a Secret Service man, explained, "They're gettin' hot." So were the 60 reporters, but Lyndon loped on, talking about the convention. "John Pastore was just excellent," said Johnson, who had personally phoned the Rhode Island Senator to congratulate him after his keynote address. "My barber told me Pastore's talk stirred him up, made him proud to be an American." He thought Oklahoma's Representative Carl Albert, the convention's platform committee chairman, had done a marvelous job: "I just couldn...
...traditional tomblike silence. Other yachtsmen thought that Constellation under Bavier was clearly emerging as the better boat in light to medium air. But the two boats had not yet been tested against each other in the kind of heavy 15-25-m.p.h. winds that often blow across Rhode Island Sound in September...
...British are coming!" cried an alarmist. "We invited them," replied the New York Yacht Club. And sure enough, there they were last week, slicing through the swells of Rhode Island Sound-two of the handsomest, most dangerous twelve-meter yachts to visit U.S. waters. Some time between now and the start of the America's Cup races on Sept. 15, the Royal Thames Yacht Club as challenger will choose either Sovereign or Kurrewa V to wrest away the ugly "auld mug" that has been in U.S. hands ever since the competition started 113 years and 18 fruitless challenges...
Wearing pants that stuck close to home and hair that should never have been let out alone, they looked alike. You could tell the boys from the girls only because some of them had names like Betty and Cindy Lou. They were all folk-song fans, come to Rhode Island last week for the fourth annual Newport Folk Music Festival...