Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common knowledge around Newport: the unusual appendage rakes forward under the hull into a bulb, then sweeps aft into two delta-shaped wings designed to give the boat an advantage while heeled over sailing upwind (see diagram). The exact dimensions of the keel were well known to the International Yacht Racing Union's Measurement Committee, which had formally examined Australia II for conformity to the complicated 12-meter standards well before the racing began...
...fighting it out among themselves for the right to challenge for the America's Cup, a symbol of U.S. ingenuity, or treachery, or both, that is bolted snugly, smugly, or both, to a heavy oak slab in the West 44th Street rumpus room of the New York Yacht Club...
...President, Jimmy Carter was a devoted cheapskate. He sold the presidential yacht, curtailed White House magazine subscriptions, and took away the limousines and office television sets of aides. But now that he is back in private life, Carter seems to have acquired a taste for the finer things. He asked the Government to buy a $15,000 wool carpet and two chandeliers costing $3,500 for his federally funded office in Atlanta. Even the General Services Administration, not known for its thrift in dealing with ex-Chief Executives, balked. So Carter managed to buy the rug below list price...
...Hamburg, West Germany's de facto journalistic capital. Says one fellow reporter: "He is a perfectly ordinary reporter, perhaps a little gullible but otherwise bland." Heidemann has one colorful trait: a passion for Nazi memorabilia. He sold his house in Hamburg a decade ago to buy a yacht that formerly belonged to Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Göring, then used it for entertaining aging former Nazi officials. Several years ago Heidemann bought letters purportedly exchanged between Mussolini and Churchill, but he withdrew them from planned publication when told that they were forgeries...
...Anderson was an established, but retired businessman, a talented and successful yacht designer, and a well-rounded person with a strong and able mind, but without a major time commitment to keep him active. He felt a renewed dedication to his alma mater, so he called one of his friends--a Harvard fellow--to see if he could do anything with the University. At that point, the current University Marshal was stepping down. The fellow asked Anderson if he had travelled much. Anderson had gone around the world twice, visiting a number of smaller countries, and with that requirement filled...