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...seems to have commented on everything and everybody. On John F. Kennedy: "[a President] with the style of a hairdresser's assistant­he combed his way through problems." On Jackie Kennedy, after John Kennedy's death: "She'll end up on an oilman's yacht." On Harry Truman: "a merchant." On Richard Nixon, 1963: "This man has a great future in store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Glimpse of Glory, a Shiver of Grandeur | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

During his first four months in office, many Britons wondered whether the Prime Minister would ever start anything. He seemed to spend so much of his time sailing his yacht, Morning Cloud, that a cartoonist showed him asking a bobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain: The Quiet Revolution | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Yourself. South Milwaukee's people are proud of their self-sufficiency. Residents boast that their town is the only one in Milwaukee County that has not joined the metropolitan sanitary district. When some boating enthusiasts formed the South Milwaukee Yacht Club, the members pitched in themselves to build a one-story, cinder-block clubhouse and a breakwater that juts into Lake Michigan. The members pay dues of only $36.50 a year and mostly operate small powerboats, but a few have 40-ft. yachts. "We're self-contained," explains Charles Webb, 29, a trailer mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Life Inside a Worker's Idyl | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Pentagon run the America's Cup [Oct. 5] so that Australia can get its hands on the bloody thing, and let the New York Yacht Club run the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1970 | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

During its 119-year history, the America's Cup challenge has been spectacularly one-sided. Last week, though the U.S. yacht Intrepid held a 3-1 lead over Australia's Gretel II on the scoreboard, the action on the water was the closest, most hard fought in years. Plagued by fog, riddled with protests and jolted by a collision, the best-of-seven series was also one of the most bizarre and controversial in Cup annals. Said the Sydney Sun: "The name of the race committee boat sums up the whole shebang-Incredible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Incredible Shebang | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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