Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior co-captain Jim Hammitt lowered the boom on the "A" competition by steering his sloop to a first-place finish on the Moore Trophy course, which ran from one side of the Throgs Neck Bridge to the other. Laura Brown, the captain of Harvard's women's team, crewed for Hammitt...
...sandals, she pads across to where she will be photographed against a white paper drop. She grins at an onlooker. She can look a 6-ft. 2-in. man in the eye. The red flower in her hair looks like a pennant at the masthead of a racing sloop. Ellen Merlo has said that the one overriding reason for Tiegs' appeal is that her sexiness is not forbidding to men or offensive to women. This seems logical; how could anyone take offense at a sailboat...
...master hairdresser, approaches, and Tiegs bends her knees, lowering her head so that he can give it a last swipe with his brush. A small, wren-colored woman, a stylist, darts up, makes an odd little ducking gesture that may be obeisance, and slips a bracelet on the racing sloop's left arm. Photographer Seltzer, a big, bald, hard-looking man, lies on his belly, chest soothed by a pillow, and begins to talk in the style parodied in Blow-Up: "Good, good, wonderful, great...
...season of beaches and barbecues, the doldrums for much of the nation-but not for Jimmy Carter's sloop of state. The Administration was being buffeted by crosscurrents of criticism on a variety of domestic and foreign issues. None of the President's problems-Bert Lance, the Panama Canal treaty, relations with China, the Middle East, the economy, the thorny question of racial quotas-are near the magnitude of a real crisis. But the problems are numerous enough to raise doubts about the Carter Administration's mastery of the issues that confront it. They have also created...
April 24--Third in Sloop Shrew Trophy regatta on the Charles...