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Double Trouble. All through the months of May and June, Sovereign and Kurrewa V tried their sails against each other in home waters off the Isle of Wight. Now they are off Newport, learning the tricky tides and winds on the 24.3-mile Cup course itself. At the end of the first week, two things seemed obvious: either twelve could give the Yanks trouble-and the Royal Thames is in for a devil of a job deciding which boat that shall...
...first time three weeks ago off the Isle of Wight, and have been going at it in all weather ever since. So far there is little to choose between them. In eight races, Sovereign has won five times, Kurrewa three. Old Sceptre was there too-as a trial horse, and a mighty worrisome one at that. One day she beat Sovereign, and on another day showed her stern to Kurrewa, leading the Times of London to grumble: "We have heard a great deal about experimenting with different sails and techniques, but the awful suspicion grows that neither Sovereign...
...arrived on that shore with the best New England credentials. His great-great-great-great-grandfather came from the Isle of Wight only ten years after the Mayflower's famous landing at Plymouth Rock and fathered a male line of descendants of which every one was a clergyman or a lawyer except Bucky's father, who became a merchant importer. But his most
...what ails the rails is to cut service drastically. He recommends the closing of 2,363 passenger stations, and the suspension of passenger service on 5,000 route miles, most of which are already served by parallel bus routes; there would be no trains left on the Isle of Wight or north of Inverness in Scotland. Sparing nothing, Beeching even wants to shut down as uneconomical the station that serves the Queen's Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Earmarked for scrapping are 1,200 of Britain's beloved "puffing billy" steam engines, 350,000 freight cars...
...give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron. At the finish line, aboard her royal yacht, Queen Victoria herself waited to present the "100 Guineas Cup" to the winner. Finally, a hail from the bridge: "Sail ho!" "Which boat...