Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World's Fighting Fleets. Britain, France and Greece have already signaled battle, and now Australia's Sir Frank Packer, 60, has run up his flag, recommending that there be an elimination series of races among all challengers in Cup waters off Newport, R.I. The defending New York Yacht Club could do worse than take Sir Frank at his suggestion-and then stand back to watch...
...victory makes them a heavy favorite in next Sunday's Radcliffe Regatta where they will face eleven other crews, including the perennially strong M.I.T. girls at Harvard's Yacht Club...
That was the only question at Newport, R.I., last week as Bus Mosbacher sailed Intrepid to a fourth straight triumph over Australia's Dame Pattie and made sure that the America's Cup will remain at the New York Yacht Club for at least three more years. The ease of Intrepid'?, victory did not discourage other challengers. No sooner were the races over than two challenges for 1970 were received-from Britain's Royal Dorset Yacht Club and France's Yacht Club d'Hyeres...
...Rolls has a special $1,000-plus finish called "pearl metallic," but it is really ground-up fish scales. The late Marie Macdonald had platinum-dust paint on her Caddy, but Elvis Presley has diamond dust on his. For further easy identification, Presley's car sports a yacht-style rear-seat lounge, portholes, gold lame drapes, gold curtains, gold mouton carpeting, gold-plated telephone and 24-carat hubcaps and tail pipes. The hubcaps on Ursula Andress' BMW, on the other hand, sport medallions that depict Ursula emerging from a swimming pool...
...that it has. At Newport last week, there were no fewer than three potential challengers waiting at the dock: another Aussie syndicate, a British group, and a French outfit led by Baron Marcel Bich, a millionaire ballpoint-pen manufacturer. Bich already owns one 12-meter yacht, has shares in two others, including Intrepid's trial horse, Constellation, has a fourth on the drawing boards, and is reportedly dickering to buy Intrepid herself. If the baron was discouraged by the odds, he certainly did not show it. "We are ready to issue a challenge for 1970," he said, "as soon...