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...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...
While nightfall across much of South Viet Nam brought the fear of Red at tack, the capital of Saigon used to sleep undisturbed. But the Viet Cong guer rillas have moved ever closer, and skirmishes occur regularly near the city's outskirts. Last week Saigon was literally jolted awake by the closest major clash yet- only twelve miles away...
...shark's fin; and she ghosted gently through pockets of virtual calm, finding momentum where none seemed possible. In all of the seven races, Skipper Cox outmaneuvered his rivals at the start, pouring backwind into their sails and slipping out in front. And when it came to tacking duels, he and his crew strutted some impressive stuff. In one contest, on the second day of the trials, Constellation tacked 17 times in 20 minutes. Eagle covered so efficiently that she gained an average of 2 sec. on each tack...