Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yacht, cruising the Potomac Monday night, he was the tough field marshal, devising some grand strategy that would roll it all back in one brilliant stroke so that he could stand vindicated in some distant place and time. He put it bluntly the next day at the Cabinet meeting. He would not resign. There were no protests. But for the first time there were no spontaneous expressions of joy about fighting the good battle. The absence of cheers for his defiance may have helped make things come more clearly into focus for Richard Nixon...
There was a strange, almost ritualistic quality to the family's activities as they faced Nixon's final crisis. Monday evening the family, joined by Rose Mary Woods, who has been Nixon's personal secretary since 1951, boarded the presidential yacht for a dinner cruise down the Potomac. "I felt a stab when I saw them leaving for the Sequoia," said a member of Mrs. Nixon's personal staff. "If I felt as bad as I did, how must they feel? Yet they were smiling and seemed really cheerful." The scene was reminiscent of the Czar...
Wood was out and aluminum was in. That was the new gospel circulating in the rarefied world of 12-meter yachting after the last America's Cup races in 1970. No matter that aluminum-hull boats had never competed in yachting's most prestigious international competition. Designers were convinced that the lightweight metal vessels would be speedier and cheaper to build. Olin Stephens, the world's foremost yacht designer, who conceived three of the last five Cup winners, created Courageous...
Intrepid, the wooden-hulled winner of the last two Cups, had been quietly cast off by her East Coast backers after the victory in 1970. She was bought by a Seattle group and placed under the direction of San Diego Yacht Builder Gerry Driscoll, who is competing in his first Cup race. With the low-key Driscoll at the helm, Intrepid and her 13-man crew have beaten the new boats six times while losing only three races...
...York Yacht Club, holder of the Cup, is not scheduled to pick an American defender until final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...