Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year romance between Karim Ago Khan, 24, spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, and Anouchka von Meks, 19, pert French-bred daughter of a German clothier, went briefly on the rocks. Bound for Sardinia in Karim's 15 ton cabin cruiser Taara, the pair suddenly found themselves lodged high and wet on a well-marked reef near Corsica's Gulf of Ajaccio. After the Taara was towed ashore, the Harvard-educated prince was informed by a local yachtsman that a French naval yard near by had facilities to repair the boat's mashed propellers, "but they...
Studebaker-Packard. Under ambitious new President Sherwood H. Egbert (TIME. April 21). S.P. has brought out its handsomest cars in several years. To overcome their sawed-off look, the Lark and Lark Cruiser are as much as 13 inches longer than last year's models, and have been adorned with an upright grille similar to that of the Mercedes Benz (which S.P. markets in the U.S.). On the restyled Hawk. S.P. designers have also used the Mercedes look up front and a roof that borrows some of the thunder from Ford's Thunderbird. Though S.P. has dipped...
With an ignominious "L" (for learner) adjoining its New Jersey license plates, a beige, cruiser-sized 1960 Cadillac painfully navigated the narrow lanes of ancient Sevenoaks, Kent, 20 miles from London. At the helm having a go at the British driver's test: the richest American, Oilman J. Paul Getty, 68, a 50-year road veteran who had let his U.S. license expire. After successfully wheeling through the test despite the handicap of his outsized chariot, the thriftiest of billionaires solemnly explained: "I drove this because it's the only...
...week's end President Kennedy flew back to Hyannisport. On the sun-drenched Kennedy patio and aboard the presidential cruiser Marlin, he conferred with Secretaries Rusk and McNamara and his brand-new military adviser. Maxwell Taylor (see following story). Berlin and Germany occupied their thoughts as they would for some time to come. Khrushchev was busy, too. Over the weekend he called for a summit conference to sign a German peace treaty, and announced 30% increase in Russia's defense spending this year...
...which has confined itself exclusively to "stinkpots," is considering going into the sailboat business. The leading U.S. naval architects, Sparkman & Stephens, have designed for Chris-Craft a 34-ft. fiberglass motor sailer. The new sailboat would give Chris-Craft an entry into a market even larger than the cabin cruiser trade...