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...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...
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...