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...yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe he has. So far in the shakedown trials off Sydney, Dame Pattie has trounced Gretel...
...Crimson's Steve Schoonover set a new Harvard record for the pole vault by jumping 14' 8", just an inch and a half above his record of the week before...
There are some sense-flogging sequences in which a camera attached to a racing car is lowered to within an inch of the track, so that when the car skims along at 150 m.p.h. and the track comes rushing at the spectator's face, he may suffer the illusion that he is right there in the car, and that if he doesn't find that brake pedal pretty damn quick he's never going to make the next corner. And there is one phony but heart-stopping crash in which a racing car leaps off the road...
...grew that Manchester's unfavorable picture of Lyndon Johnson is distinctly onedimensional. The portrayal, say close friends of the Kennedy family, comes not from Jackie but from Kennedy partisans and from Manchester's own judgment-or lack of it. The record indicates that Lyndon Johnson was every inch the gentlemanly sympathizer during those tense moments in Dallas and later in Washington. Jackie wrote several letters to Johnson after the assassination, reported the Chicago Daily News, that "contradict the account of Mr. John son's behavior toward the grief-stricken widow." In addition, Johnson's statement...
...minutes later, Murphy walloped a 25-foot shot into the upper left corner, with about an inch to spare in each direction. Murphy's goal, which sent the game into overtime, followed a rush and blocked shot by Garrity...