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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sterne pulled a mild upset in the first round, defeating eight-seeded Randy Loftin of Army, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7, 17-14. He also downed Princeton's Tom Gilbert, 3-1. Today Sterne must face Bob Earl of Navy, and the winner will challenge top-seeded Maurice Heckscher of Penn...
...before. But he sent out no fewer than eight of his boats, including Thunderbird, a 32-ft. aluminum "hot dog" powered by two 500-h.p. United Aircraft gas turbines and piloted by Designer-Driver Jim Wynne. So radical that it was classified as experimental (and therefore ineligible for the winner-take-all $3,000 prize), Thunderbird had been clocked at 65 m.p.h. in practice runs. That was enough to make it the prerace favorite, but there was no shortage of high-velocity competition. Miami Boatbuilder Dick Bertram was at the helm of his diesel-powered Brave Moppie, the 1965 world...
...knot crosswind was kicking up 10-ft. swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered out, and watched helplessly as his $150,000 craft split...
...boat clear out of water. CoDriver Walt Walters was knocked un conscious when a wave broke across the boat-but Wynne grimly kept going. So, incredibly, did Jerry Langer in his little outboard. Finally, 4 hrs. 45 min. after the start, Thunderbird churned back into Biscayne Bay, and Winner Wynne gratefully stepped ashore, muttering: "Now that was a wingding." Runner-up Langer, who finished 21 hours behind Wynne, could not have agreed more. "Where are the Band-Aids?" was the first question he asked on arrival in Miami. But Dick Bertram, who had lost $65,000 worth of boat...
Appalled, Queens District Attorney Nat Hentel last week named Randazzo the first winner of an "honor" certificate to be handed out each year by the D.A. "for the exercise of exceptional citizenship responsibility." Unfortunately, though, in what Hentel aptly calls "the cold society," awards seem unlikely to reform those who live by the big-city philosophy: Ignore thy neighbor...