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...over second-place University of Rhode Island and five other teams was so commanding that the Crimson could have packed up and gone home without even sailing the final race. Both Harvard and U.R.I. now qualify for the finals, which will be sailed on Oct. 27-28 against the winners of two more elimination series...
...meter sloop "Weatherly" yesterday clinched the America's Cup by beating the Australian challenger "Gretel" by 600 yards in a windwardleeward 24-mile yacht race off Newport, Rhode Island...
Trinidad has more to celebrate. A 1,863-sq.-mi. chunk of green hills slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island, lying below the southernmost end of the Windward Islands, it is separated from the Venezuelan coast by ten miles of water and oil derricks. Rich with sugar as well as with oil, Trinidad has the highest per capita income ($480) in the British West Indies. It exports the second largest barrelage of crude oil in the Commonwealth (after Canada), earns a national income of $438 million, compared with the $570 million earned in Jamaica, which has twice...
Popes once grandly divided up the world, while abbots governed dukedoms the size of Rhode Island. Since then, temporal authority among religious leaders has mostly gone out of style. Last week a cleric who still has much civic influence arrived for a six-week visit in the U.S.: His Beatitude Paul Peter Meouchi, 68, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East...
...nation's 64 million passenger cars are already fitted with safety belts, at least for the front seats. This is a threefold increase over last year, and the number is expected to double again by year's end. Main reason: five states (Mississippi, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin) have passed laws requiring all new cars to be equipped with seat belts in the near future...