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...skipper, Ted Turner, entered every contest mouth-first. The boat, Courageous, was secondhand. The oddsmakers, having surveyed the competition-two new 12-meter yachts constructed for the 23rd defense of the America's Cup-had consigned the captain and his Courageous to third place. But last week, after two months and two rounds of preliminary races-with a final one beginning Aug. 16 still to go -Turner's tenacity and cunning helmsmanship brought Courageous home to Newport, R.I., leading in the trials to select a boat to represent the U.S. hi the Cup. So far, Turner...
...invited his Atlanta Braves baseball team to watch him race. Courageous had been sailed to the 1974 Cup victory by Hood, who this year planned to use it (with Turner as captain) for tune-up duty as Independence's sparring partner. But Hood reckoned without the cocky skipper's fierce competitiveness. "Everything...
...brains and heart. And I had a lot of heart. I could hang in there." Hang in he did, and over the years, Turner emerged as one of the most widely experienced and successful sailors in the world, winning in a variety of boats under every condition. As a skipper, he is a fire storm of energy, ranting, cursing, praising, excoriating. On the waters of Rhode Island Sound off Newport, he has driven his crew to a razor-sharp edge. Conservative in his tactics when in the lead, he will stop at nothing when he is behind. The final race...
Remarkably few of the new rich live with great ostentation. Most have no perceptible hubris. They do not notably bid for Rembrandts, breed horses or skipper their own one-tonners in the Bermuda race (all of which tend to be the pursuits of old wealth). By and large, they are not socialites. None of the dozens of new plutocrats interviewed by TIME is a gourmet, a connoisseur, a collector of fine furniture, old wine or (for the most part) new lovers-though they do tend to like fancy cars. Their relative austerity suggests not only that they are very busy...
Charter fishing-boat skipper; Miami...