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Tomorrow at Yale Dave Stookey, Dave Gants, and Tim Prince will skipper the three Harvard crews through nine races. The Crimson second team will compete in the Coast Guard quadrangular regatta...
...more. Running before the wind, under an 800-sq.-ft. spinnaker, a 5.5-meter can skim along at 8 knots. But a sailor is well advised to take along a reliable Mae West and a strong Australian crawl. "You've got to be rugged," says one skipper...
...nightmare. One early race had to be postponed for lack of wind, but by the end of the seven-race series, swells were running 10 ft. high, and a 30-m.p.h. easterly buffeted the 34-boat fleet. "Are you sure we're in the right place?" asked one skipper. "This looks like the North Atlantic...
...Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., 29, seagoing son of famed U.S. Yachtsman Corny Shields: the International One-Design Class world sailing championship, on Long Island Sound. Skipper of the 12-meter Columbia in last year's America's Cup trials, Shields won the world title by scoring back-to-back victories at the start of the six-race series, building up such a lead that he could finish sixth in the last two races and still win handily...
...attacking the Kennedy "myth," Lasky writes that J.F.K.'s "military experience included having the PT boat of which he was the skipper rammed and sunk by a much slower Japanese destroyer." A Pulitzer Prize author? "Kennedy had considerable help." Even Kennedy's use of naval power to pressure Khrushchev to withdraw his missiles from Cuba was, to Lasky, merely a ploy for domestic political advantage, since "among other things, Kennedy was able to accomplish the political destruction of his former rival, Richard M. Nixon, in California...