Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plucky Myopic. Reckless physical bravery is often expected of Kennedy guests, and the quickest road to acceptance for an outsider is some act of dazzling physical courage. As many as three "draggers" hang onto life preservers towed behind the Kennedy sloop Victura. The stiffer the breeze, the better the sport-since the dragger thus swallows more waves and finds it harder not to drown...
...richest man in Denmark-and reputedly one of the richest in the world-is shy, strapping A. P. (for Arnold Peter) Mø11er, who, at 85, still likes to sail himself to work in his sloop Karama III. In his storybook rise from merchant's apprentice, Mø11er (pronounced roughly Mew-lehr) has always believed in one precept besides making money: do something for Denmark. Mostly, what he has done for Denmark is to invest in it. With the profits earned abroad by his 85-ship Maersk Line and his 25,000-acre Tanganyika sugar plantation...
...Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania biophysicist, beautifully handling the .32-11. 6-in. sloop Complex III, the world 5.5-meter sailing championship, by defeating 24 other boats from eleven nations at Poole, England. Though disqualified for colliding with another yacht in the fourth of six races, Chance, who won an Olympic gold medal with his 5.5-meter yacht in 1952, sailed so well in the others (two firsts, a second, a third, a sixth) that he ended with 6.184 points and a margin of more than 400 points over the second-place finisher...
Movie number two is Clements Portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost suffocating beauty...
Last fall Harvard gained top New England honors by winning the Sloop Championship, the Team Racing Championships, the Big Three Championship, and two other major regattas...