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...long been quietly plotting his course for the Cup's recapture. After breaking with the N.Y.Y.C., Conner, who owns a drapery business in San Diego, raised some $15 million (mostly from corporate sponsors, including Ford, Merrill Lynch and Budweiser). Two years ago, he assembled his crew and began sailing in near secrecy off Hawaii, where wind and water duplicate the Western Australia conditions. Conner had also noted that the Fremantle Doctor, a wind so named because it relieves the almost 100 degrees temperatures onshore, increases in strength as the antipodal summer progresses. So he got his marine architects to deliver...
...government was rocked by scandal when it was revealed that Secretary of State for War John Profumo was involved with a young "party girl" who was also sharing her favors with a Soviet naval attache. "It was a storm in a teacup," Macmillan later remarked, "but in politics, we sail in paper boats." A prostate ailment forced Macmillan to resign as Prime Minister in 1963. He left Parliament a year later, explaining, "When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away...
...tour with me. The country feels enormous still, and various, in spite of airport roads that look identical everywhere and stores that unite the country in a fast-food mythology. The electric glass of Dallas could not be mistaken for Boston's pedagogical tweed or San Diego's white sail. In New York City this season, the sky dims by 4 in the afternoon, and the shop lights pop on like gold-and-white lanterns...
...glass- hulled New Zealand, dubbed the "Plastic Fantastic," surged ahead on the wind and crossed the finish line 15 seconds ahead of America II, ending one of sport's most venerable records. For the first time in 135 years, an entry of the New York Yacht Club will not sail in an America's Cup final...
Four challengers, who have sailed 34 races each since October, have emerged to compete in the semifinals, which begin Dec. 28. The leader, New Zealand, has amassed 198 points out of a possible 199; it will sail a best-ofseven series against fourth-place French Kiss (129 points), named after its sponsor, Kis, a French manufacturer of photographic equipment. Kiss has been a surprise, surviving with a brash young crew and steady sailing. Second-place Stars & Stripes (154 points), skippered by Dennis Conner, who lost the Cup in '83 and is determined to get it back, will battle...