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...gospel circulating in the rarefied world of 12-meter yachting after the last America's Cup races in 1970. No matter that aluminum-hull boats had never competed in yachting's most prestigious international competition. Designers were convinced that the lightweight metal vessels would be speedier and cheaper to build. Olin Stephens, the world's foremost yacht designer, who conceived three of the last five Cup winners, created Courageous...
...Maryland. As a friend of the Governor's observed: "If she goes, she'll have to go under her own steam." He could file for a Maryland divorce, but since it is contested, he could have as much as a three-year wait. If he sought a speedier divorce elsewhere, he would have to establish out-of-state residence, and thus give up his office...
...large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent. When the elephant-like mastodons began to die out, the sabertooth's days were also numbered. Slower afoot than modern tigers and possessed of a smaller brain, the sabertooth could not keep up with speedier prey that might have assured its survival. Indeed, archaeological dating of the remains of sabertooths found in Los Angeles' Rancho La Brea tar pits suggests that the last sabertooths vanished from North America about 13,000 years...
...talking Treasury Secretary John Connally heads to Rome for a meeting of the Group of Ten rich nations this week, and there are hints that the U.S. at last may be willing to make a deal to settle the world money upheaval. Powerful U.S. officials are pressing for a speedier settlement than Connally had envisioned, at possibly a lower price than he had hoped to obtain from foreign nations. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur F. Burns has told President Nixon that an agreement is urgently needed to prevent a world economic slowdown. Foreign Policy Adviser Henry Kissinger has privately warned...
...first time since 1940, when President Franklin Roosevelt persuaded an isolationist Congress to renew Selective Service, the Senate seriously considered whether to have a draft at all. Viet Nam, of course, was the reason. Some Senators argued that abolishing the draft would bring the war to a speedier conclusion...