Word: cay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-lined wallet can get away from teeming tourists, beach bums, surly service and bad food for $60 to $70 per couple per day at Huntington Hartford's somewhat Hollywoodish Ocean Club on Paradise Island (long called by a less idyllic name: Hog Island) or at Lyford Cay (pronounced key). Lyford Cay is a club, founded five years ago, where a couple (if found acceptable) may rent one of the 50 guest bedrooms ($56 a day) in the clubhouse or a two-bedroom cottage ($140 a day) like those occupied by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan during...
...real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent $17 million providing a fitting setting...
...huge ranch house set on 25 acres, it is equipped with an electronic bar that mixes drinks to order ("I don't care for tending bar"), an elaborate intercom system (designed by Clint Jr.), and a swimming pool that could float the Queen Mary. He also owns Spanish Cay, an island in the Bahamas complete with private airstrip. A physical-culture faddist, Clint Jr. does 50 pushups, 50 knee bends and 50 situps every other day. He is too busy to do them daily...