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This week Eagle, Constellation and Columbia will tack out into Long Island Sound for the first shakedown cruises. Next week comes the initial "command performance" at the New York Yacht Club's spring regatta. All through the long summer the club's selection committee will hold preliminary trials leading up to the finals beginning Aug. 17. It is far too early for yachtsmen to talk about a favorite for the Cup defense off Newport on Sept. 15. But the odds favor the new boats. Only once in the past has an older boat won out. And that...
...Mercy, Mr. Percy." By January, he was gaining on Carpentier - but not much. Then Carpentier had a heart at tack, pulled out of the primary, and died a couple of months later. Percy's new opponent was State Treasurer Wil liam Scott, 37, who charged into the campaign avowing his all-out dedication to conservatism and his total support of Barry Goldwater for President. Percy decided to take a chance. Although Illinois was considered a bastion of Barryland, he hedged his commitments to Goldwater. Said Percy: "I have made it clear all along that I am running on state...
...Even by tack-room standards, stony-faced Willie Shoemaker, 32, seems a little smaller than life. Standing on tiptoe, he is barely 5 ft. tall and weighs only 98 Ibs. But Willie casts a considerable shadow. In 15 years of booting thoroughbreds around the nation's racetracks, he has won more than 4,850 races, and his mounts have earned almost $31 million...
Chasan, now executive editor of this journal, is shallow and occasionally inaccurate, but he makes one good point. Chasan first presents a confusing and unconvincing philosophical discussion of his relation to the American Negro. He then abandons that tack and says that his growing antipathy to the Negro movement springs from the leadership's ignorance of "a responsibility of their own." He says the leadership has failed to bring about internal changes in the Negro community necessary for effective integration. "First," he writes, "there must be leaders who will encourage, even demand, constructive attitudes and actions completely apart from demonstrations...
...SOUTHEAST ASIA, the President resisted the temptation to veer off on a new tack in the ugly guerrilla war in South Viet Nam. Bolstered by the latest on-the-spot report from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Johnson decided to ignore both those who would neutralize the country and those who would carry the fight across the 17th parallel into North Viet Nam. Instead, he reaffirmed the slow, painful course that the U.S. has been following for some three years. "We must stay there and help them," he said, "and that is what we are going to do." Equally important...