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...starting flag fell prematurely in the annual Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race, sent speedboats scuttling wildly across each other's wakes, resulted in a collision between a Coast Guard patrol boat and a 40-ft. cruiser. For once the choppy ocean course was placid and the race went to the swift, not the sturdy. The winner: Aokone, a light 25-ft. runabout powered by twin 280-h.p. Mercury engines and skippered by Florida's John Bakos. Aokone covered the 182-mile distance in a record 3 hr. 42 min. 20 sec., at an average speed of 49 m.p.h...
...guest speaker was New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the occasion a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for 1,640 Nassau County (Long Island) Republicans. As a token, Dinner Chairman Salvatore Malone provided each diner with a silver dollar encased in plastic-leading Rocky to recall: "It was my grandfather's custom for years to give away dimes. But tonight Sal Malone is giving away dollars. It just shows it pays to stick along with the Republican Party-three generations, dimes to dollars...
After the 100 backstroke in the evening, the varsity lost its lead to both Princeton and Yale. Nassau's Jed Graef, a double winner, took the event. Yale gained fourth and fifth...
...Princess of Windisch-Graetz, Lady Sassoon, the Earl of Hardwicke, Baroness Peggy de Gripenberg, four U.S. Senators and two people named Connie and Nonnie van Vlaanderen. By rough count, the crew added up to 850 sparkling personalities, all of whom last week jammed onto little Hog Island in Nassau harbor in the Bahamas...
Seemingly headed for an off-screen Oscar for her supporting role in a deep-water drama was Jayne Mansfield, 28. Water-skiing from a chartered outboard off Nassau, the busty cinemorsel, her muscleman husband Mickey ("Mr. Universe of 1956") Hargitay and a friendly publicist suddenly turned up missing-a calamity that evoked outsize headlines all across the U.S. plus a massive. Coast Guard-led search. Rescued after a night on a lonely islet, the castaways explained that Jayne had frenziedly overturned their boat after the party spotted sharks (in waters in which the Nassau Yacht Club hadn't seen...