Word: tacke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later they were at it again, and this time Eagle made it exciting. As usual, Cox won the start for Eagle, defended masterfully through a series of furious tacking duels, and led Bavier's Constellation around all five marks of the 24.3-mile Olympic course. Turning the final buoy for the 4½-mile upwind beat to the finish, Cox had a 22-sec. lead. Then Bavier set a new jib on Constellation and launched an exhausting short-tacking drive; 17 times in 15 minutes he put about, gaining a precious second or two on each tack...
...attend the courses are mostly in their mid-40s, earn an average income of $27,000. It costs a company $2,000, plus expenses and salary, to enroll an executive, and the gold "sign of Hermes" tie tack presented to graduates has come to rank with the private ice-water carafe as a status symbol back at the home office. Though some participants never really break away from their desks for the six-week period and try to run things back at headquarters with flurries of long-distance telephone calls, most men-flattered at being chosen-drop everything to take...
...York Yacht Club selection committee wanted to lay the mark, Eagle was the superior boat, her crew the better crew. Only three times all summer has Cox lost a start; on rapid-fire tacking duels, his smoothly clicking crewmen usually pick up two or three seconds per tack (Cox started out with an intercom system to issue commands, has now dispensed with it because everyone has hand signals down pat). Cox makes the boat point higher and foot faster than any of her four rivals. In ten legs of windward work in the present series, she has gained a brisk...
...Ussery has learned to use tactics as well as tack. No jockey is shrewder at rating a short-winded speed horse on the lead; few are more accomplished at sitting chilly on a stretch runner, picking the instant to make a move. And when it comes to a photo finish, he knows every trick in the book: flicking a horse gently under the chin to get its head up at the wire, dropping the reins to let the horse's neck stretch out. "I've matured," he says. "With my attitude real sour like it was before...
Hearty Cheers. Most popular and most successful is the Chronicle. Once a sobersided copy of the New York Times, the paper took a new tack toward entertainment in 1955 under the direction of Executive Editor Scott Newhall and Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of the paper's founders. The two men filled their pages with columnists, both syndicated and local, until the census peaked at 53. Columnists now cover everything from veterinary medicine (Dr. Frank E. Miller) to sex (Count Marco, a local beautician), frequently at the expense of news...