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...coming into the - weather mark on a starboard tack and bearing off to port. The foredeck chief and crew will hoist the spinnaker pole. The bow man jumps into the forward hatch and hooks in the guy, sheet and halyard to the spinnaker. As we round the mark, the foredeck crew hoists the spinnaker and lets down the jib. The navigator holds the jib on an auxiliary sheet as the port tailer releases the jib sheet. The port tailer is then free to take in the spinnaker sheet while the other tailer takes in the after guy. Then...
Whenever Bus was racing, supper at the Mosbacher household was a pretty lively affair. "Why did it take two minutes to get the spinnaker up?" Papa would demand. "Why did you tack when you did?" Recalls Bus: "He was most sparing with his compliments. If I pulled a really bad blunder, I would arrange to have dinner with a friend. On one or two occasions I stayed the weekend." One of Emil Sr.'s concerns was sportsmanship. "He thought it was terrible to file protests," says Bus, "and he always warned me not to get involved in gamesmanship, which...
Different Tack. Amid all the talk of increased troop levels, eight liberal Republicans in the House suggested a different tack altogether-mutual de-escalation by the U.S. and North Viet Nam in a move to get peace talks started. Headed by Massachusetts Congressman F. Bradford Morse, the group urged the U.S. to initiate a 60-day bombing suspension north of the 21st parallel, just below Hanoi. If North Viet Nam responded by closing off infiltration routes, U.S. bombers would gradually broaden the proscribed areas until the Northern raids had stopped entirely. Negotiations might then begin after each side had demonstrated...
...Mosbacher's older, slower Vim in the final U.S. trials. That was the year that Mosbacher invented the "tail chasing" start. While the two boats were jockeying for position, Bus kept Vim's bow practically on top of Columbia's transom. Columbia could neither jibe nor tack without fouling Vim. Not until Mosbacher broke off for the starting line could Cunningham swing into action. By then, Vim was precious seconds in the lead...
...obscure a single source by multiplication.) Reston obviously talked also to high American officials; probably, I think, to the President himself, to judge from Reston's use of the phrase "highest officials here' and the surefooted way he says, "at this point, it is understood, President Johnson took another tack . . ." Other candidates for Reston's sources in this piece are Rusk; Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach; Walt W. Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs, and McNamara. As a general thing only guidance from men of this rank within the government would encourage Reston...