Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...allowed Stephens to build a bigger boat; theoretically, at least, the longer the waterline, the faster the boat. INTREPID should probably be rechristened Son of Intrepid. Designer Britton Chance Jr., 29, has altered the 1967 cup winner so much that it is virtually a new boat. According to one rival designer, Chance "performed a hysterectomy on her keel," radically shortening and reshaping it in an effort to give the boat more "lift" to windward and help it perform better in lighter winds. The bow and stern remain the same, but the afterbody has been made fuller with the addition...
Seeking a Comeback. I.O.S. now needs two things: cash and the confidence of investors. Other groups, including rival foreign-based funds, have been dickering to gain control of I.O.S. and provide just that. Last week, in the Paris headquarters of the French Rothschilds, Guy de Rothschild chaired a secret meeting of European and U.S. bankers to hammer out a proposal for taking over I.O.S. Rothschild's interest was more than the noblesse oblige of a patrician banker. His Banque Rothschild was an underwriter of I.O.S.'s $54 million stock issue last fall, and the Rothschild reputation for astuteness...
Governor Nelson Rockefeller wouldn't think of accepting-not in such company-but he couldn't help laughing when he heard the proposition. His political rival, New York City Mayor John Lindsay, broke up a Manhattan luncheon for the Apollo 13 astronauts by suggesting that he and Rocky fly to the moon together. "The combined effect," said Lindsay, "ought to make millions of people very happy...
...Tokyo Race Course for three days to buy tickets for the 37th running of the Japan Derby. Other fans took part in the annual taxi derby, a wild last-minute rush to the track by hundreds of kamikaze drivers who are tipped 100 yen (27?) by customers for each rival taxi they pass. Among the 120,000 spectators who packed the track was a large contingent of housewives in kimonos and miniskirted girls who waited in long lines at the ladies-only betting windows...
...latter-day Spanish conquistador Antonio de Berrio, Trinidad was a staging point for futile Orinoco expeditions in search of El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. To Berrio's English rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, Trinidad was to be the beginning of a South American empire, where Indians and true-born Englishmen would unite to destroy the power of Spain. In his excessively romantic chronicle, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, Raleigh describes an Arcadia whose wealth and spaciousness would give new dimension to Renaissance European...