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...NORTH SHORE YACHT CLUB on the landlocked 44-mile-long Salton Sea, once a part of the Gulf of California, has 2,300 dues-paying members, and a 2,600-ft. landing strip, from which visitors may transform themselves into sea dogs and start trolling within minutes of arrival for such specialized game fish as corvina (which go to 20 Ibs.) and sargo. Since Salton Sea is 234 ft. below sea level, speed enthusiasts also like to test the theory that engines run better and boats go faster because the air is denser there...
...Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.) expressed hope that the HYRC visit would dispel the "impression that a donkey is the Harvard mascot." Salton-stall will host a luncheon tomorrow in honor of the Club members in the New Senate Conference Room...
...same as flying in an airliner at, say, 30,000 feet, and looking down at clouds at 10,000 feet." During the daylight hours, he peered out his cabin window at the earth far below. Over California, he spotted part of the Imperial Valley to his left, and the Salton Sea; he could even pick out the irrigated acres around El Centro, where he once lived. Looking down on the Atlantic, he saw the Gulf Stream as a river of blue. Cabin temperature at one point went up to 108°, but Glenn was comfortable inside his separately cooled space suit...
...John Wayne to Joan Crawford and Walt Disney. There are also a lot of nameless people with money who, as Gable put it, "are so far down the list they seem to have got in just to do the cleaning." Possibly Profitable. Gambler Ryan, who also owns the Salton Sea Yacht Club and the Bermuda Dunes Club in Palm Springs, says that Americans are tired of Miami Beach and will "go nuts" about the Africa he has discovered for them...
...make it, Phillips so far has spent or committed $10.9 million on Salton City. Improvement costs are high, but so are profits. On a one-third-acre plot that costs Phillips about $40, he puts in another $400 for development and $600 for promotion. His selling price: $2,000 or more. After a land buyer has paid one-third the cost of his lot, the Phillips organization will provide 100% financing, at 7% interest, to build a house...