Word: beaches
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Though his protean athletic skills include hunting, soccer and skiing, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing joined thousands of his countrymen by packing up his wife and four teen-age children for a vacation at the beach. While his constituency fought for space in the sand, however, Giscard enjoyed some swimming, tennis and boating in the privacy of a Cote d' Azur estate bor rowed from Prince and Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne. "My vacation I devote especially to my children," declared Giscard to a French reporter, then came...
...vacationing Yeshiva (religious school) students and young rabbis. Half a dozen vans are on the road each week in New York City and its suburbs and in the "Borscht Belt" Catskills resort area upstate. The sect also operates vans in other U.S. cities (among them: Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit, Miami Beach and Los Angeles), and in Canada, Australia and Israel...
With Neptune and Telophase enjoying such good business, old-fashioned undertakers are jumping aboard. In San Diego, all 32 licensed mortuaries will now provide sea service if requested, some for as little as $187.50. In Huntington Beach, Dilday Bros. Funeral Directors estimate that some 30% of their trade now involves a watery finale. Dilday charges $350, but because the scattering is done from a private plane, three family members are allowed along for the ride at no extra charge...
Where were the lawyers? In the surf, on Waikiki beaches or strolling along Kalakaua Avenue with their families, decked out in colorful sports shirts for the men and matching muumuus for their wives. Outgoing A.B.A. President Chesterfield Smith of Lakeland, Fla., called the no-show performance "deplorable, disgraceful and regrettable." All this past year Smith had been doing his feisty best to stir colleagues into facing up to the public suspicion and derision heaped on lawyers since Watergate. The beach bliss-out was a response the profession can ill afford...
...urbane president of the 21 Club, Manhattan's lavishly appointed former speakeasy that offers social status along with costly food and drink, youngest of the four brothers who steered "friends of the house" to the right tables over the years; of a heart attack; in Westhampton Beach...