Word: sloop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meter sloop "Weatherly" yesterday clinched the America's Cup by beating the Australian challenger "Gretel" by 600 yards in a windwardleeward 24-mile yacht race off Newport, Rhode Island...
...Race (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The race series begins Sept. 15. This program develops its background, shows films of the elimination races held in August and excerpts from the two races already run by this date between the American twelve-meter yacht Weatherly and the Australian sloop Gretel...
...sloop Mermaid with 88 Ibs. of rice, 200 cans of fish, five gallons of water, 60 bottles of beer, a ukulele and two English grammars-then set off for San Francisco, 5,300 miles away...
...group of four discussed sport parachuting in the program's first and five members of the command of Boston's 12-meter sloop Nefertiti followed with an hour's discussion of America's Cup racing, originally recorded on August...
...become the new president of the association, the lawyers last week inaugurated Sylvester C. Smith Jr., a onetime "country lawyer" in New Jersey who is now general counsel of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America. A robust deep-water sailor (he races a 43-ft. auxiliary sloop), Smith is the first corporate counsel ever to serve as A.B.A. president, as well as the oldest ever chosen; he will be 68 this month. Biggest item on Smith's agenda for 1963: an international conference-to be held probably in India-aimed at the A.B.A.'s goal, "World Peace Through...