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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...
...made a career out of playing David to the Goliath establishments of sport. Before organizing the W.F.L., he put together the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association. By creating 34 new teams in three major sports in the past eight years, Davidson has become an acknowledged master builder in a field that includes such lusty franchise spawners as Football and Tennis Tycoon Lamar Hunt...
Walter Washington, LL.D., mayor of the District of Columbia. A builder of urban life when many tear down, an optimist in afield where most despair...
...instance, Lewis and Ruth Goldfarb needed routine legal assistance in buying a $54,500 house. Though they shopped around, 20 attorneys all said they would not do the necessary title search for less than the prescribed minimum of approximately 1% of the purchase price, despite the fact that the builder had done a title search of his own and the new work was a simple matter of updating. The Goldfarbs reluctantly paid, but they also brought suit in Federal District Court on grounds of price fixing. They won the first round against the local bar association...
...Massachusetts trial judge has ordered a Wall Street Journal reporter to disclose the name of the source of her story about a prominent builder...