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Fortnight ago, Packer gave her a sterner test. When a raging nor'easter swept into Newport from the slate-grey North Atlantic, he ordered Gretel to sea for a race against Vim. As small-craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume...
During the second hour, the Forum turns to the America's Cup Races to be held off Newport, Rhode Island starting on September 15. Beer will discuss the greatest race in American yachting with Mrs. Arthur Anderson and Don MacNamara...
...standing here in the Senate as I have stood here today would begin to show a 5 o'clock shadow. I feel that I have lost my lipstick too ..."At that point, Rhode Island's John Pastore, floor manager of the satellite bill, asked whether she would yield so he could speak. Suspecting some parliamentary maneuver, she refused, instead called for a quorum. During the quorum call, Pastore walked over to the lady and whispered: "I was just going to say you are charming and lovely even without lipstick." Next day the battle grew bitter. Oklahoma...
...putting Italian-born Anthony Celebrezze in the Cabinet, said Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte, one of a dozen Italian-Americans in the House, Kennedy "has solidified his position with the Italian-Americans. If they had any feelings against him for anything he's done, this will overcome it." Added Rhode Island Democrat John O. Pastore, the only Italian-American ever to serve in the Senate: "It is a matter of pride and prestige." To Kennedy, it is also a matter of votes. In no fewer than 125 congressional districts, Italian-Americans account for 3% of the vote. Heavy urban concentrations...
...like a tag-team fight. For two weeks on the fickle waters of Rhode Island Sound, the four best twelve-meter yachts in the U.S. had at each other in a series of two-boat races that went on through light winds and lashing gales. In not one of the dozen races did the sailors concede anything-except a generous serving of backwind. The only thing officially at stake was pride, but for pride's sake, U.S. deepwater sailors put on a display of tenacity and tactics that had not been seen in a seadog...