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...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...
...overruled medical protests to help out in Columbia's unsuccessful bid to be the U.S.'s Cup defender. But now it is over. Last week, acting as executor for the estate of his brother Paul, who had owned Columbia, Corny announced the sale of the twelve-meter yacht to a California syndicate. The group plans to be the first from the West Coast to enter the Cup trials, will go up against two-year-old Nefertiti and a pair of brand-new yachts. Said Corny with undisguised longing: "Columbia is going to give those new boats a tussle...
...Stepdaughter Fernanda remembered seeing about five boys on the mantelpiece. Some were dancing, and some were playing "yacht" with a ship's steering wheel on the wall. Everybody thought this was "very funny...
...there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
Questioners wondered just how socialist was Socialist Defferre. The answer seemed to be, not very. Defferre, who owns a yacht and bosses a prosperous newspaper, Le Provencal, would extend nationalization only to a few businesses "too much identified with the Gaullist regime," and possibly to the big, privately owned investment banks. Defferre, of course, promises to reverse the rising French cost of living, which has resulted in a plague of nationwide strikes by civil servants and factory workers...