Word: yachting
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...winning campaign does not come cheap. Two weeks ago the San Diego tax- exempt foundation formed to raise $15 million from individuals and sponsoring companies found itself $4 million short. That is about the same amount that the New York Yacht Club syndicate spent on its entire 1983 defense. Burnham appealed to the press, and the stories have helped bring in $1.3 million, including an additional $250,000 from an early backer, Budweiser...
Throughout the century and a third of challenges, lately spaced three summers apart, the dandruffy commodores of the New York Yacht Club (N.Y.Y.C.) kept polishing the silverware and admiring their own mugs. "It's a boat race," Red Smith used to like to write in the New York Herald Tribune, "in the horse-racing sense of the term." Meaning the result was pretty well arranged. If the rules were not rigged, they were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away...
Last week, however, as speakers on the Stars & Stripes tender boomed out the boat's theme song, Danger Zone, from the movie Top Gun, the skipper who lost the America's Cup had come a long way toward putting some glory after his black mark in yachting's record book. Conner's 1983 defeat by Australia broke the New York Yacht Club's 132-year winning streak. This time, Conner has heeled over, hunkered down and blasted to a comfortable -- and unexpected -- 3-1 lead over the fiber-glass-hulled New Zealand in the best-of-seven series to determine...
Conner's success on Gage Roads, a boisterous strip of the Indian Ocean off Perth's port of Fremantle, is a sailing surprise. Through four elimination rounds since October, Stars & Stripes, the entry of the San Diego Yacht Club, had done well, compiling a 31-7 record. But in last week's challenger final between Conner and New Zealand, pundits and punters favored the "Kiwi Magic" because the boat was 37-1 overall, as well as 2-1 in its previous races with Stars & Stripes. Gloomy American fans worried about an all-Pacific final that would keep...
...unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth of U.S. weapons left behind when America pulled out of Viet Nam. The most prominent of all, of course, is Adnan Khashoggi, the sybaritic Saudi Arabian whose jet planes, opulent yacht, lavish parties and glamorous companions seem intended to promote his image as the world's richest...