Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flag," grumped an advertising executive in Vancouver. "It's the kind of flag someone might fly over a yacht, but not over a country," added an Edmonton publisher...
...NORTH SHORE YACHT CLUB on the landlocked 44-mile-long Salton Sea, once a part of the Gulf of California, has 2,300 dues-paying members, and a 2,600-ft. landing strip, from which visitors may transform themselves into sea dogs and start trolling within minutes of arrival for such specialized game fish as corvina (which go to 20 Ibs.) and sargo. Since Salton Sea is 234 ft. below sea level, speed enthusiasts also like to test the theory that engines run better and boats go faster because the air is denser there...
...Yankees, for all their skills, team" are with the now fans. New But York's there is "second one ancient monopoly that only grows more exciting with the years. That is the U.S. hold on the America's Cup - symbol of international supremacy in yachting. By the end of this summer, a doughty group of British yachtsmen will have spent close to $600,000 in an attempt to remove the ungainly, Victorian cup from its accustomed place of honor in the New York Yacht Club...
Questionable Paragon. Not every 19th century Englishman kept a yacht at Cowes, a hunting lodge at Abergeldie, stables at Ascot and a villa at Marienbad. But they admired the man who did, and cheerfully forgave him what the Times of London called his "round of questionable pleasures." He pursued those pleasures with particular vigor, thinks Biographer Magnus, precisely because Victoria and Albert had determined to make him a paragon of English virtues. As a result of that determination, his upbringing was appalling. He was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. He was given six hours of instruction...
...Friends of Harvard Sailing have made a major contribution to the solution of this problem by donating 5 Olympic Finn Dinghies, which were delivered to the Harvard Yacht Club last week. Practice in these boats next year should enable several Crimson sailors to develop single-handed skills of championship calibre...