Word: sirs
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Prince Charles called the idea "mad but marvelous" when the explorers first set off. Last week, when Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 38, and Charles Burton, 40, returned to England after a threeyear, 35,000-mile trip around the world via the North and South Poles, the Prince hailed their "courage, endurance, will power and sheer bloodymindedness." To the cheers of the 10,000 people who thronged the dockside as their ship, the Benjamin Bowring, sailed up the Thames to Greenwich, Fiennes responded, "Some people would say that we have been lucky, but I would say God has been good...
...THIRD WORLD WAR: THE UNTOLD STORY by General Sir John Hackett; Macmillan; 372 pages...
...welding products. Singlehanded sailing is not new. Britain's Sunday newspaper the Observer used to sponsor a contest called OSTAR, the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race; solo sailors have crossed both the Atlantic and the Pacific in boats as small as 10 ft. Others, including Britain's redoubtable Sir Francis Chichester, have raced around the world from England and back. But the BOC Challenge is the first singlehanded around-the-world race to begin and end in the U.S., and in the same port that hosts the America's Cup Race...
...sailors seem up to their challenge. Desmond Hampton, 41, a handsome London real estate broker, has chartered the 56-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth V from the family of the late Sir Francis Chichester. Hampton's only companion will be a tiny stuffed koala bear presented to him for good luck by his daughter. Guy Bernardin, 37, a French business executive who will skipper the 38-ft. Ratso II, accepts the loneliness of the long-distance sailor. "For a race such as this," he says, "you must clear out all the responsibilities in your life. Anything can happen. You must...
...lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave behind his villa Wahnfried, buried, in the phrase of one astonished British tourist, "in the backyard, sir, like a dog." Bayreuth has seen everything...