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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hood had no formal training as a naval architect, but he had plenty of ideas about boats picked up on salt water when he set out to design Robin in 1955. Patterning her after the successful, wide-beamed Finisterre (designed by Olin Stephens), Hood made Robin wide and shallow so that much of her displacement was up near the waterline. He willingly accepted a penalty under the intricate-formula racing rules for hoisting an outsize sail. Then Hood gave Robin an extralong, 6 ft. daggerlike centerboard "with some shape...
...time jockey, with a reputation as a slasher who bulled his way through the field like a fullback. Ussery used the whip so much that some jockeys hated to mount the horse he had ridden because the animal tended to sulk. Not until last year, when he was set down for 30 days for whacking Eddie Arcaro's horse across the nose at Jamaica, did he finally realize that there is more to racing than muscle. Ussery still whips hard (cracks one jockey: "They run for Shoemaker because they like to; they run for Ussery because they have...
...campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler Ambrose did not mention the tunic, but tradition has it that she gave it to the city of Trier (Augusta Treverorum to the Romans), along with one nail and a piece...
...strong support from Texas Governor Price Daniel, who appointed him to a top-level committee studying the state's educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...
...city's high incidence of polio this year (21 cases, three deaths), the segregationist Citizens' Council loudly denounced the board for opening schools "in the face of a polio epidemic.'' In short order, the board got a signed statement from 35 Little Rock physicians that set things straight. Said the doctors: the polio is centered in preschool children; teenagers are safer in the relative quiet of high school...