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...intelligence sources within Cuba had insisted that the Soviet Union was equipping its Caribbean satellite with missiles, manned by Russians, that could carry nuclear destruction to the U.S. But the reports were fragmentary and sometimes contradictory. And U.S. reconnaissance planes, photographing Cuba from the Yucatan Channel to the Windward Passage, could detect no such buildup. President Kennedy was not yet persuaded to take decisive action...
...strong crew from the University of Rhode Island threatened the Crimson, in the first race, as its four boats started well and maintained a team lead until the last windward leg of the triangular course. But Lehmann, in first place, managed to slow down the second and third U.R.I. boats, letting Stookey slip into first and giving the Crimson...
...best 4-of-7 series. In the kind of breezy (10 to 17 knots) but not blowy day that Weatherly likes best, he beat Gretel's Jock Sturrock to the start, soon had a healthy lead and increased it with every mark of the 24-mile, windward-leeward course. The game Aussie skipper hounded Mosbacher like a hound after a fox (cracked one spectator: "Sturrock ought to know how to spell Weatherly by now; he's seen the name on her stern enough"), but at the finish a wide 3 min. 40 sec. and half a mile...
...Doing Him In." The race was only a half hour old when Mosbacher knew that he was in trouble. Beating to windward (Weatherly's strongest point) toward the first eight-mile mark on the 24-mile triangular course, he could manage only a four-length lead. Eleven times in the space of five minutes Sturrock challenged with short tacks, hoping to gain a few precious seconds, his crewmen working like demons at the coffee-grinder winches. Each time, in the brutal test of skill and muscle, Mosbacher covered, instantly at first, and then more slowly as his crew began...
Trinidad has more to celebrate. A 1,863-sq.-mi. chunk of green hills slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island, lying below the southernmost end of the Windward Islands, it is separated from the Venezuelan coast by ten miles of water and oil derricks. Rich with sugar as well as with oil, Trinidad has the highest per capita income ($480) in the British West Indies. It exports the second largest barrelage of crude oil in the Commonwealth (after Canada), earns a national income of $438 million, compared with the $570 million earned in Jamaica, which has twice...