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...Vance was a leftover World War II DE with popgun armament and an arthritic engine room, decked out as a DER (Destroyer Escort, Radar) and dispatched to help keep track of junks along the Viet Nam coast. Arnheiter, who became her new skipper at Christmas time 1966, was another sort of updated archaism. Machinery bored and confused him. He flunked out of West Point before squeaking into-and through-Annapolis. But he was a champion debater and his head was stuffed with nautical heroes and hero worship, as well as fine sea-fighting phrases ("Seek out, engage, destroy...
...Times presentation of the Pentagon papers and before that took the time to prove that large portions of a book chronicling U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam were fake. He naturally and justly decries the manipulation of the press, and cites the defense of the Vance's deposed skipper as a case in point...
Sailing in International Twelve-Foot Dinghies at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy over the weekend, skipper Tim Black with crew Tad Kramarczyk won the New England Single Division Freshman Championship. In capturing the Priddy Trophy for the first time since 1952, the freshmen close out a highly successful season with the best record in New England...
...weekend Harvard sailors captured the McMillan cup by a narrow one point margin over Tufts. The victory returns the cup, symbolic of East Coast big boat supremacy, to the Crimson for the first time since 1944. Sailing in 44-foot yawis at the U.S. Naval Academy, skipper Charlie Koch led the five race series with outstanding crew work by co-captains John Bowers and Rud Istvan, George Putnam, Dave Brownlee, Rick White, Oivind Lorentzen, and Andy Burns...
Harvard sailors were plagued with bad luck, foiling their chance for an unprecedented third straight victory in the Hoyt Trophy. All-New England Charlie Koch, sailing in A-division with crew Edgar Pulitzer, was low-point skipper for the regatta. Chris Middendorf, with Doug Libby, in B-division, sailed well but was twice the victim of disaster. In the first race, Middendorf lost a rudder and his second place finish shortly before crossing the line. In the next race, finding himself in first place ten yards before the finish, he capsized. With the gust of wind, first place...