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Many of them will sail under the green-striped house flag of the country's No. 1 shipowner: Sigval Bergesen d.y. (for the Norwegian words den yngre, meaning the younger...
...with the Silver Spoon. Son ot a Stavanger shipowner who started out in the days of sail, Bergesen spent 20 years dutifully propping to take over the family firm. Then, in 1935, he struck out on his own: his father, then 72, seemed unwilling to retire -ever. Bergesen bought a 14,000-ton tanker and put it into a long term charter. Using the ship as collateral, he later purchased a faltering shipyard in Stavanger at a bargain price, installed oversized construction docks, then cashed in handsomely after World War II as one of the few European builders who could...
...struck and the rest is relatively simple -for a time. A falconer may hunt his hawk for several months, perhaps even six. But sooner or later, almost every hawk returns to the wild. "Fondness comes easily to humans," sighed a German falconer last week as he watched a falcon sail off in the general direction of Yugoslavia. "But these bloody birds have no gratitude...
...loom large as an election issue in November, the Republicans would dearly like to make it one. Toward that end, the House Republican Conference last week issued a 37-page indictment of Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the war. In it, the Republicans did their agile best to sail with the doves and swoop with the hawks...
...North American men's sailing championships is a test of sailors alone. After summer-long eliminations, eight men are chosen to sail eight races in eight virtually identical boats. After each race, the contestants swap boats to eliminate any possible edge. The victor gets his name engraved on the Clifford D. Mallory Cup-and proud claim to the title of No. 1 U.S. sailor...