Word: yachtsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past years, the McMillan Cup has been won by famous yachtsmen such as Bob Bavler, George O'Day and Bus Mosbacher...
...blocks from downtown, approved a $16,600,000 bond issue to clean up 128.5 acres of dank and decaying buildings. In their place will go a convention hall, five 30-story luxury apartment buildings, a park, a pool, a marina and motel-boatel catering both to passing motorists and yachtsmen...
...which lost four straight to the U.S. in 1958). A second boat was on the drawing boards, and a third might be built. The British proposed to hold their own elimination trials, then take on the U.S. defender. After a full summer of practice this year, Britain's yachtsmen were ready and waiting...
...with Sir Frank Packer, the doughty "Big Daddy" whose money built Australia's Gretel, in the lead. Weatherly crewmen, hugging their Aussie counterparts, poured drinks down their necks with fraternal abandon. Just as a huge mirror crashed from the wall, the police barged in to urge the celebrating yachtsmen out into the streets and on to less public premises...
...Which boat is it?" demanded the Queen. "The America, Madam." Said Victoria: "Oh, indeed! And which is second?" There was a pause, while the signalman's glass swept the horizon. "I regret to report," came the halting reply, "that there is no second." "Yankee trickery," charged the British yachtsmen, hinting darkly that black-hulled America was powered by some sort of "infernal machine." In the bitterness of that moment, one of sport's great and enduring contests was born: the America's Cup became a symbol of national pride, national purpose-and, as it turned out, national...