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Having traveled halfway around the globe to race on Bertrand's home turf, the better part of the world sailing establishment is now prepared to dispute his claim. For seven days ending last week, 14 brightly colored 12-meter yachts, representing eleven America's Cup syndicates from six countries, plowed the boisterous waters off Western Australia in a pre-Cup sparring match called the 12-Meter World Championship. When the last sails were furled, the visitors had taken a belting, both from the sea and from the home team. A 20- knot wind, known locally as the Fremantle Doctor, frequently...
...could such a man have found his way to the hospital of Presidents? The military health care system in general seems to be at fault. Eleven Navy officers have so far been censured or face disciplinary action in the affair, including the officer who supervised Billig's recruitment, Commander Reginald Newman. The recruiter was convicted of perjury at a court-martial in January, fined $10,000 and docked $2,000 a month in salary for ten years. His crime: withholding information from an investigating team regarding Billig's competence. Perhaps because the Navy has difficulty attracting experienced surgeons (their average...
...also born needing steel braces on her legs for seven years to correct badly turned-in feet and a spinal deformity. "Restless and bored" with the schools and rules that came with her heritage, she eventually quit college and at 21 left the U.S. for what became eleven years in Europe, Africa and Asia with little more than the 65-lb. rucksack she carried on her back...
...Soviet Union today is being run by a man empowered to take radical action to rouse a lethargic country and fulfill its potential as a superpower. The changes Gorbachev has already imposed would have been unthinkable just a year ago. Three members of the party's eleven-man top decision-making body, the Politburo, have been removed since he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko. In their places are younger men who conform to Gorbachev's vision. A new Premier has been installed, and 21 government ministries have new bosses. At lower levels of the party, new chiefs have taken over...
...Irish electrician and an Italian mother, Hill entered the crime business at age eleven, when he took a part-time job at a Brooklyn taxi stand run by the brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...