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...experience scarcely went beyond weekend cruising. But then he saw a Paris Match story on the 1962 races, was smitten by the majesty of it all, and decided to challenge for France. To learn about 12-meter design, he bought both contenders in the 1964 competition: Britain's Sovereign and the U.S.'s Constellation, Designer Olin Stephens' runaway winner. Next, Bich tried to buy Stephens' Intrepid, which crushed an Australian challenge in 1967. When he was rebuffed, Bich asked a brilliant young American, Britton Chance Jr., to design Chancegger, embodying the latest ideas in 12-meters...
Gratefully the Jews included their benefactor in their prayers, petitioning God to "exalt our sovereign and Holy Father, the Pope." The group also developed a self-protective prejudice of their own. Foreign Jews were tolerated for three nights, then asked to leave. Lingerers were escorted out of town by the Pope's guard. When a "foreign" Jew married into the Carpentras circle, the locals called it a mixed marriage...
...Bucharest last year. Ceausescu stayed away from the formal events, including his own government's official reception and the treaty signing. He entertained Kosygin at one luncheon and spent three hours in private talks with him. As one Bucharest official noted: "We observed protocol as is befitting a sovereign nation...
...Temporal Sovereign. It has been the principle of church-state separation that has qualified U.S.-Vatican ties since the nation's birth. In the mid-19th century, the U.S. did have a minister-resident in Rome, because the Pope was then a temporal sovereign, governing much of central Italy as well as Rome. Since then, however, U.S. relations with the Vatican have been less formal. In 1902, William Howard Taft, then Governor of the Philippines, successfully sought the help of Pope Leo XIII in getting Spanish friars in the islands to release their landholdings for redistribution to the Philippine...
...slowed miles. Slow as the pace was, the closest contender to Porsche was Bucknum's Ferrari, which finished fourth at a distant 248 miles behind the winner. Since there is no heir apparent in sight, the 1970 Le Mans was further proof that the Porsche will be the sovereign of sports-car racing...