Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 23 races-19 at home, four off Newport-the blue-hulled Sovereign leads the light-green Kurrewa by only the narrowest 12-11 margin. In the first of last week's races, sailed in a steady twelve-knot wind, Sovereign breezed home ahead by a quarter of a mile, showing superior speed to windward, where most yacht races are won. But next day, with the wind up to 20 knots, Kurrewa seemed to have it in the bag until a clew pulled out of the jib, and her crew took a horrendous six minutes clearing the mess. Sovereign...
...feel that American firms do not sufficiently study their potential market, location and labor force beforehand. Too often they send over flying squads of vice presidents without serious preparation to make a crash decision in a matter of days. With time for only a ledger-eye view, they often wind up either buying nothing or buying unwisely. When the Monsanto Co. recently decided to set up a plant in a Luxembourg town, it discovered too late that the town has acute shortages of both water and labor-but the plant is under construction...
...effort to halt the epidemic, 3,000 of the soldiers are under drastic quarantine. These are the men who have been on Fort Ord's 29,000 acres of hills and wind-blown sand dunes for less than eight weeks. For reasons that still have medical researchers baffled, only the rawest recruits seem subject to the disease. After a man has spent two months on the post, he apparently develops immunity, and cases among the permanent party are virtually unknown...
...wind is important; so is the cut of the sails as well as the skill and care of the men who designed and built the boat. But to Corny Shields a racing sailboat-the only kind in which he is interested-is driven mainly by the skipper's will to win. As just about the most successful racing skipper of this century (TIME cover, July 27, 1953), Corny Shields has, inevitably, the most indomitable will to win. "Racing," he admits frankly in this autobiography and sailor's guidebook, "is the aspect of sailing that has gripped...
...Shields would not have it otherwise. He is dedicated to the idea that the important thing in sailing is racing, and the important thing in racing is winning. If any man is interested in sailing merely to enjoy the sensation of having his boat driven by the wind, Shields is not for him, and he is not for Shields. As a Johnny-come-lately to ocean racing (in 1946), Shields was appalled to find that on the 635-mile course from Newport to Bermuda, which takes four to six days, skippers allowed their crewmen to relax. Not Shields. He insisted...