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...sinus condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique at an intransigent Nehru. The First Lady had ridden to hounds a fortnight ago at her Virginia estate, and last week went water-skiing off Palm Beach while her husband watched from the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. But the fact remained: Jackie had been examined by White House Physician Janet Travell and a specialist at Bethesda Naval Medical Center-and the trouble was sinus...
...Australian challenger came from the board of Alan Newbury Payne, 40, a maverick Sydney naval architect whose failures (an overrigged 12-ft. skiff, a 35-ft. cutter that wallowed badly when winds dipped below 25 knots) just about balance out his successes. To turn out the first 12-meter yacht ever built Down Under, Payne shrugged off recurring hepatitis, worked 60 hours a week for two years under such rigid security that outsiders still do not know the boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such U.S. 12-meters as Vim and Columbia...
...years, ocean racing's most famous trophy, the America's Cup, has been gathering dust in the New York Yacht Club, waiting for a foreign challenger to win it away from the U.S. The British have tried 15 times, the Canadians twice. Their combined efforts have cost at least $25 million, and all have failed. Last week another nation threw down a challenge. Along the banks of the Parramatta River, outside Sydney, throngs of excited Australians cheered the launching of a sleekly handsome 12-meter yacht that may give U.S. sailors their sternest test...
...Awful Spot. At week's end the svelte Australian challenger was still berthed at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, awaiting christening and preliminary sea trials. Sydney wags suggested the name Spectre, an unkind play on the Sceptre. Britain's roundly trounced 1958 challenger. But the syndicate of Down Under businessmen (a newspaper magnate, an oilman, a tobacco tycoon) who had shelled out $700,000 to build her were optimistic about her chances against the U.S. next September. Said Syndicate Chairman Sir Frank Packer: "The Americans have had the cup for so long that when they give...
...jacked" by unshaven pirates. Annie was taken to the island of Tributo, where General Mustashio Toro held her and her fellow hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful lot of us admire...