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Last week at the Sprints an errant sailboat crossed the novice's path in the finals, costing them a shot at a respectable finish. This week, Nimgade's power effective, for the eight responded by picking up and driving by a fading Yale boat...
...tragic later career in the Irish Rebel lion. An Anglo-Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became an embarrassment to the Irish patriots and was done away with...
When British Yachtsmen Alan Warren and David Hunt limped across the finish line 14th in a field of 16 Tempest-class sailboats, they looked their not-so-good ship Gift 'Orse in the hull, set the fiber-glass beast afire and sank it in Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman...
...whose very name has become a synonym for a materialist paradise. Its citizens enjoy one of the world's highest living standards, and a great many possess symbols of individual affluence: a private home or a modern apartment, a family car, a stuga (summer cottage) and often a sailboat. No slums disfigure their cities, their air and water are largely pollution-free, and they have ever more leisure to indulge a collective passion for being ut i naturen (out in nature) in their half-forested country. Neither ill-health, unemployment nor old age pose the terror of financial hardship...
...third entry in the race, fair Wellesley, did not fare very well at all. In fact the suburban crew, unused to the heavy traffic of the Charles River, could not even make it out of the basin, as its shell collided with a sailboat early...